Restarting our economy
The most important responsibility that our elected leaders have right now is restoring our economy. The plant closings and lost jobs that have hit our community are threatening our families today and threatening our kids’ prospects for tomorrow.
Coming from a small business background herself, Val Hoyle knows a thing or two about what it takes to be competitive. She’s helped local companies compete and succeed in a tough global marketplace.
Val applied the lessons she learned in the business world to come up with the right plan for our economy.
Strengthening education
In recent years, when the Legislature kept using education funding as a political football, Val Hoyle got fed up with their antics and decided to stand up for our kids.
Val started out working with the local elementary school Parent Teacher Organization and then joined with Stand for Children, parents, and local teachers to fight for the essential funding our schools – and our kids – need to be successful.
Making health care more affordable
62,000 people -- including 9,000 children -- are uninsured in Lane County.
That’s an outrageous number and it just makes the recession that much worse for people who find themselves out of work and out of luck when it comes to dealing with medical emergencies.
Working with local hospitals and health clinics, Val Hoyle’s day job with the United Way of Lane County’s 100% Access Coalition is to keep reducing the number of uninsured people until every family in our area has access to affordable, quality health care that they can rely on.