Allyson Schwartz

Allyson Schwartz is committed to building One Pennsylvania, where economic opportunity is our highest priority and our infrastructure contributes to our ability to attract and retain businesses and good paying jobs for our people. To build this Pennsylvania, we must have high expectations for ourselves and our future. We must recognize our economic... strengths, ensure an educated and skilled workforce, modernize our infrastructure, and promote our advantages. We need bold new ideas and a renewed commitment to creating the necessary environment for private sector job growth that expands opportunity and prosperity for middle-class Pennsylvanians. As governor, Allyson Schwartz will set a new vision for infrastructure in Pennsylvania that not only maintains the state's infrastructure, but creates the means to finance and build innovative, modern, transportation initiatives that will enable Pennsylvania to compete and grow in the decades ahead. Allyson Schwartz has said that, as governor, she will seek to enact a moderate five percent severance tax on natural gas production in Pennsylvania and use the profits from this public asset to make transformational investments in education and transportation. Already, Schwartz has announced a plan to provide Pennsylvania's children with a strong start by launching Keystone Kids, a landmark effort to make access to voluntary pre-kindergarten universal for Pennsylvania 4-year-olds, and by making it possible for all school districts to offer full-day kindergarten. Schwartz will end Corbett's assault on our schools and recommit Pennsylvania to public education. She believes, as do Pennsylvania's families, that there is no better investment for our children and our economic future. But just as we need to educate our workforce to attract and keep the jobs of the 21st century, so, too, we need to upgrade our state's fading infrastructure. Pennsylvania's manufacturers, entrepreneurs, farmers and small business owners all require a first-rate transportation system. To move people and ...Read More