Working families | Iowa Senate Democrats

Community colleges help workers, economy rebound

3 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Education, Issues, Jobs & Economy, Official, Opinion, Post includes video, Working families

As businesses and industries look to fully re-open, they’re struggling to find the workers they need to fill well-paying jobs. Iowans may be eager to apply, but often lack the specific skills required. That’s where community colleges come in.

Expanded Child Tax Credit: Boost for Iowans’ pocketbooks starts July 15

3 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Official, Opinion, Working families

The federal American Rescue Plan is the biggest piece of anti-poverty legislation in more than 50 years. One key feature, an expanded Child Tax Credit, will provide major tax relief for nearly all families starting July 15.

Our COVID Recovery Plan

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Fiscal responsibility, Health care, Issues, Jobs & Economy, Official, Opinion, Quality of life, Safer communities, Transparency & accountability, Working families

Iowans have been through a lot over the last year, particularly with the pandemic. It’s not over yet, but it is time for the Legislature to do all it can to help Iowa build back better, bigger and stronger than ever. Our focus this session is on a COVID Recovery Plan to help Iowa rebound from the ravages of the last year.

Iowans need supplemental food assistance

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, News releases, Official, Quality of life, Working families

A group of Iowa Senate Democrats are calling on the Iowa Legislature and Gov. Reynolds to pass immediate assistance for food and other basic needs as early as possible in the 2021 legislative session.

Statement on Reynolds’ failed COVID strategy

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Health care, Issues, Official, Quality of life, Safer communities, Working families

The Governor’s half-measured attempt at a mask mandate will not be enough to make Iowans safer, especially heading into the holiday season. Her actions today are simply too little, too late. Half-measures will only prolong this pandemic and the suffering of Iowans.

Statement on Governor’s latest COVID steps

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Health care, Issues, News releases, Official, Quality of life, Safer communities, Working families

Governor Reynolds’ latest steps to fight COVID are like buying a smoke detector after your house is blazing out of control. If the Governor had listened from day one to health care experts – including the White House Coronavirus Task Force – more Iowans would be alive today and the Iowa economy would be rebounding.

The Truth about Iowa Unemployment

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Jobs & Economy, News releases, Official, Opinion, Working families

The headline today from the Reynolds administration of 4.7% unemployment in Iowa wildly underrepresents the dire current unemployment situation in Iowa. A truer unemployment number would be 12.3%.

Thank you, Iowa workers!

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Official, Working families

This Labor Day, let’s look around and thank those who are working hard in what often feels like thankless times. The best “thank you” we can give hard-working Iowans is real opportunities to get ahead.

Iowa is COVID hot spot

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Official, Safer communities, Transparency & accountability, Working families

Six months into the pandemic, when many of us thought we might be in the clear, Iowa is in the thick of it with record-high infection rates and mounting deaths. Yet, the Governor continues her half-hearted approach that is preventing Iowa from getting the coronavirus under control.

2020 Session Wrap-up

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Ag & Farming, Blog, Consumer protections, Education, Energy & Enviroment, Fiscal responsibility, Health care, Issues, Jobs & Economy, Official, Quality of life, Safer communities, Transparency & accountability, Veterans & service members, Working families

A quick list of the good, the bad and the ugly bills of the 2020 legislative session.

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