The following is a legislative update from State Senator Amanda Ragan, representing Iowa Senate District 27 which includes portions of Cerro Gordo, Mitchell and Worth counties, as well as Rock Grove and Rockford townships in Floyd County:
If we fix the state’s workforce crisis, we can put more money into the pockets of hardworking Iowans and rebuild Iowa’s reputation as a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
The workforce crisis is hurting our schools, health care system and Main Street businesses:
* In Iowa schools, there aren’t enough full-time teachers, substitute teachers or bus drivers. The result is that schools aren’t operating at 100% every day.
* Iowans have less access to quality, affordable health care than they did two years ago because of the workforce crisis.
* Until we solve the workforce crisis, businesses across the state will remain closed or they will be forced to operate with reduced hours and fewer employees.
We need to invest in working families by:
* Increasing support for apprenticeships, career training, and technical education.
* Boosting support for affordable, quality child care across the state.
* Expanding access to ensure free, universal preschool in every community; and making child care more affordable in all 99 counties.
* Fully funding our public schools so our students attend the best public schools in the country.
* Investing in more affordable housing and helping more Iowans become homeowners.
* Providing paid family leave for working Iowa families.
I will continue to stay focused on the issues that matter to hardworking Iowans.
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27 thoughts on “Senator Amanda Ragan: “Let’s solve workforce crisis, help Iowans””
Glad to see she is wearing, not one, but two worthless masks. Good job. Hope she’s had four jabs too.
That was Johnny Cash and RING OF FIRE -down down down NOT Bruce. Did he mean a firing squad for these corrupt people who are killing America ?
Stop giving the Mooches free money and they will go to work.
Tell Grassley, he’s an ace at collecting free socialist paychecks and subsidies, million$ worth
Grassley is working though. They were referring to free loaders.
The govt paying someone not to grow crops is working? When that very individual helps set the policies that help him get paid? That’s rich.
Pelosi had to learn it somewhere. Over 30 million made through insider trading. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Pol’s should be restricted in their stock market play, it’s complete corruption out there right now.
These “mooches” paid unemployment insurance and are entitled to benefits, bot. Why should they fry your hamburgers for you for peasant wages?
So they are off the gov’t welfare. l have had to start over more than once.
Just a tip, STOP
Housing assistance
heating assistance
Free healthcare
Free phones
Free Food assistance
Etc
I did not mean to say free, I, the working person is providing all this
If you are the “working person” what are you doing posting stuff on this site at 2:30 in the afternoon. Shouldn’t you be working?
not everyone works day shift hours , asshole
Well, it is now 6 pm. What shift do you work?
NIGHT AND YOU OR USELESS ONE?
The working person NEEDS all of this, because north Iowa employers pay such low wages.
Don’t be scared…move, l did
The cost of living in reference to the wages in north Iowa, are some of the best in the country.
And last but not the least, stop giving away free money to people that are able to go to work.
Like Charles Grassley, for example?
Believe he is still working…until the next election anyway
And possibly up next, Dave Muhlbauer to suck off the tax payers tit.
Let’s hear it for the stock market. ‘going down, down, down’…as Springsteen song rocks in the background. The bitcoin revolution is garbage and is ‘going down, down, down, too. These circus clowns are heading for a crash. With no integrity left the cheating is at a all time high. Flunkies. And we all know that this malicious virus will rear it ugly head again in 2022. There is stopping another mutation. One thing that the virus is doing is kicking GREEDs ass straight up. Like a boss! Cheats.
Musk lost 25 billion, Bozo lost 17 billion, Zucker lost 10 billion. All in matter of hours. And the money was never there to begin with. What a sham. The trillionaire in politics are next.
I applaud this.
Propped up by nothing… some bet it would fall… how far down does it go?
General Mills just paid its investors $300 million in dividends, purchased $150 million of its own stock, pays its CEO $16,000,000 a year and makes over $2 billion in profits a year. They are raising the price of the cereal it sells by 20%. That should tell you all you want to know.