Jim Hood

Education

We can do more to provide pre-K for kids across Mississippi—not immediately, but over a 4-year period, as we open up the budget, as we cut waste, as we do away with all the giveaways and insider deals. We will find the money for pre-K and we can do that without more taxes on working people Learn more

Our teachers deserve reasonable pay. For too long Mississippi teachers have been paid too little—far less than surrounding states. Let’s figure out a way to raise teacher pay to attract and retain the best teachers for our children Learn more

We need to make college more affordable—especially community college. Eight counties in North Mississippi have banded together to make community college tuition free. If they can do it in North Mississippi, let’s encourage other parts of the state to do the same Learn more

Expand job training and apprenticeship programs at our community colleges and technical schools. To attract new businesses to Mississippi, we need a well-trained work force Learn more

Government Reform

Require all state legislators and state officials to allow the public to have access to all of their email and other correspondence under the Mississippi Public Records Act Learn more

Legislators should not be able to take campaign contributions while the Legislature is in session Learn more

I’m going to take a prosecutor mentality to state government and go after every instance of the taxpayers getting ripped off. Every special insider deal. Every wasteful giveaway. Every time tax dollars are used to scratch someone’s back, I’m going to be on it like a hawk. And the money we recover goes right back to the working people Learn more

Healthcare

Focus on improving rural access to health care and keeping rural hospitals and emergency rooms open Learn more

Expand Medicaid to cover over 300,000 Mississippians—many working families –who cannot afford health insurance Learn more

Accept over $1 billion per year in federal support to pay for keeping rural hospitals open and providing healthcare to over 300,000 Mississippians, which will also create over 8,000 jobs in the healthcare industry and pump dollars into rural communities Learn more

Infrastructure / Transportation

Fix our roads and bridges. I’ll put a process in place so the roads that are built and bridges that are fixed are done based on need, not the whim of a special interest buying access or elected officials getting roads built for their personal convenience Learn more

Taxes / Budget

Jim Hood wants to move Mississippi in line with most states in the nation by reducing the rate families pay in sales taxes on grocery goods Learn more

Jim Hood believes that hardworking Mississippi families deserve a tax break Learn more

Under Hood’s plan, food purchased for home consumption would be taxed at a rate of 3.5 percent instead of the full 7 percent under current state law. Hood expects this reduction to save Mississippi households an average of $153 per year. The reduction in state revenue would be offset by eliminating waste and corporate tax giveaways to large, out-of-state corporations Learn more

We need to provide tax relief for families by rolling back the sales tax on food Learn more

We need a claw back provision in state law that says if an out of state corporation gets a tax break for promising to create jobs—they lose their tax breaks if they don’t create those jobs Learn more