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Top 10 State Legislature Policy Issue Forecast

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has issued its annual Top 10 Policy Issue Forecast for 2007. According to NCSL, the top issues facing state legislatures in 2007 will be:
  1. Immigration
  2. Homeland security and standardized ID cards
  3. Budget pressures
  4. Health insurance
  5. Sexual offenders and predators
  6. Energy and environment
  7. Minimum wage
  8. Higher education reform
  9. Privacy
  10. Obesity

The NSCL identifies several others issues such as same-sex marriage and stem-cell research as "simmering and emerging issues."

From Library Boy.