丹·罗德里克斯（Dan Rodricks）：韦斯·摩尔（Wes Moore）希望高中毕业生一年的有偿公共服务。听起来不错。听起来很昂贵。|评论

民主党州长候选人韦斯·摩尔（Wes Moore）为年轻的马里兰人提出了为期一年的公共服务选择，他们从高中毕业，而没有大学计划或他们需要做好工作的技能。他提出了“服务年度选择”的建议在最近的广泛采访中在巴尔的摩的太www.my188.com阳。为了简短和清晰，已经编辑了以下问题和答案。（已安排了前总统唐纳德·特朗普认可的共和党候选人丹·考克斯（Dan Cox）的采访。）

You support an amendment to the Maryland Constitution establishing a right to an abortion, correct?

We need to send a very clear message that Maryland is going to be a safe haven for abortion rights. Regardless of what Trump’s Supreme Court judges believe, we need to make sure that people in Maryland know that we’re going to ensure that both patients and providers are going to feel safe doing something that is health care.

Your campaign emphasizes having strong public schools. But hasn’t the heavy lift on that already taken place with the passage of the multibillion-dollar Blueprint for Maryland’s Future?

The蓝图is funded in the early years, through 2026. It’s the out years that are the question. My commitment is that it is going to be fully funded, and it’s going to be fully funded because I believe in it. And I don’t believe in one tenet, I believe in all of the tenets of the Blueprint.

Every one of the answers I come to is because of data. I always say, ‘As a leader I am data-driven and heart-led.’ I wear my heart on my sleeve and I acknowledge that. But I know that data matters, and data continues to show that 80% of brain development happens in a child by the time that child is five years old. Why we have children starting school at age 5 makes no sense. So we have to have pre-K for every child in need.

我们知道我们必须增加课堂内有色教育者的管道。在我们州历史上，马里兰教室里的大多数孩子都是有色人种的孩子。因此，我们需要拥有一个有助于反映这一点的教育核心。同样，这不是情感，而是它的数据。数据表明，我们可以向教室介绍有色人种的教育者越多，不仅有色的孩子做得更好，而且所有做得更好的孩子都做得更好。我相信我们的孩子应该接受21世纪的教育，我们能提供的最伟大的经济引擎是确保我们的孩子能够参与未来的经济。

You propose a service year option for students who aren’t sure what to do after high school graduation. How would that work?

They would all have a chance at apaid year of serviceto the state. I think it helps to address the college affordability crisis. I’m a big believer in experiential learning, and in this time of political divisiveness it’s public service that will help to save us. High schools had a pendulum swing far too swift when we started evaluating them based on things like four-year college acceptance rates. That’s not the path for every kid. We are going to be the first state in the country to provide a service year option for every high school graduate. What we’ll do is partner with nonprofits, community organizations and social enterprises, and the student can choose. That person does a year of service — it can be in housing, in the environment or in education — and they receive things like financial literacy, opening bank accounts, all things they need to be successful in the transition to adulthood. At the end of the year, we’re going to provide financial incentives for whatever they want to do next — a two-year school, a four-year school, a trade or apprentice program — to help defer the cost that they’ll have.

听起来不错。听起来很昂贵。Would the state provide the wages?

The paid service year option would be funded by bringing together state, federal and private sector resources, including leveraging resources from the federalAmeriCorpsprogram.

关于气候变化，大会在减少碳排放的目标设定方面已经取得了很多成就。您还建议什么？

If you look at our campaign, we’re talking about 100% clean energy by 2036, net zero carbon emissions by 2045. Every state vehicle by the end of my second term is going to be an electric vehicle. We’re going to focus on the electrification of the grid. We’re going to leverage our universities to focus on solar and wind technologies, and solar and wind entrepreneurship. That will also help to address theracial wealth gap[白人和有色人种之间的家庭资产差异]，因为我们将投资于企业家，特别是颜色的企业家，以帮助建立他们的企业。

They are aggressive goals, but the only way we’re going to accomplish what we need to accomplish is by being aggressive. We have to make our state more competitive while also making it more equitable. We have to缩小种族财富差距, which right now in Maryland is 8-1, and we have to address the issue of climate. Not only is it an existential threat, we are looking at something that has cost the state over$10 billionover the past decade. We’ve got to take this seriously.