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Bipartisan bill would compensate college athletes

3 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, News releases, Official, Transparency & accountability

A new bill would allow student athletes in Iowa to profit from promotional use of their names, images, and likenesses as early as July. SF 245 would allow student athletes to financially gain from marketing opportunities. Six states have enacted similar legislation.

Boulton: Solutions to racial injustice must be new

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Official, Opinion, Quality of life, Safer communities

Our city, state, and nation are struggling with what is broken in our society. Racial injustice isn’t new, but our solutions absolutely must be. We have seen powerful, poignant moments. A peaceful, massive assembly has inspired new conversations. It also inspired a powerful and real emotion for some: anger.

Boulton: Workers’ compensation should cover coronavirus

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

More than 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair chronicled the misery and abuse of American workers in the meatpacking industry, describing them as “centers of contagion, poisoning the lives of all of us.” Today, we are witnessing a new chapter in the life and deaths of meatpacking workers and other essential workers through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boulton: Corrections workers need support

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, Official, Opinion, Safer communities

With the dramatic increase in positive cases at the prison (IMCC) at Coralville, it is obvious that the State of Iowa has not done enough to protect Iowa’s public servants who are working the front lines during this public health disaster.

Senators: 3 steps to meatpacking worker safety

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, News releases, Official, Safer communities, Working families

As the COVID-19 public health emergency worsens, three Iowa State Senators are calling for immediate action in response to multiple outbreaks at meatpacking facilities across the state.

Working together, we can help kids in need

4 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Health care, Issues, Official, Post includes video

Did you know that neuro-psychiatric conditions can result from a simple streptococcal infection? While most of us would not panic to hear our child had strep throat, for some kids, that infection leads to a much more serious condition.
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Don’t let Medicaid mess undermine children’s health insurance

5 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Health care, Issues, Official

Two members of the board of Hawki, Iowa’s nationally recognized Hawki children’s health insurance program, today raised concerns about maintaining quality as it becomes part of Iowa’s troubled privatized Medicaid program.

UPDATED: 2019 Iowa Senate Democratic Committee Assignments

6 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, News releases, Official

Senate Democratic Leader Janet Petersen released updated committee assignments today for Democratic State Senators for the 2019 session of the Iowa Legislature. The 88th General Assembly will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, January 14, 2019.

Restoring rights to working Iowans

6 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, News releases, Official, Post includes video, Working families

Senator Nate Boulton, ranking member of the Labor & Business Committee, introduced two workers’ rights bills. SF 2185 would allow injured Iowa employees to choose their own doctors. SF 2186 restores the collective bargaining rights abruptly taken away from several hundred thousand Iowa workers last year.

Boulton: Here’s how to provide all working Iowans with paid family leave

6 years ago by ContentAdmin · Blog, Issues, News releases, Official, Working families

Senate File 2133 would provide 12 weeks of paid family leave for working Iowa families. The leave would be available when Iowans must care for a family member with a serious health condition or to bond with a newborn, adopted, or foster child. The bill also provides for paid medical leave for a personal serious health condition.

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