This week Republicans in our state decided that you don't need unemployment insurance for 26 weeks and that 16 weeks is plenty unless your company packs up and leaves. Also, they don't care if you have to work for less than you did before you were laid-off as you'll have to accept a job that pays as little as 60% of your former earnings or be cut off from your benefits at 8 weeks. You see, Iowa has 50,000 jobs that need to be filled and only about 29,000 people who are seeking work. Oh, and no they did not raise Iowa’s minimum wage to $15, or restore collective bargaining rights, or prohibit asking about criminal history on a job application, or even invest in affordable housing which Democrats tacked on as amendments. Republicans rejected those amendments.
What else don't they care about? They don't care if you are told if the well on your property is safe to drink. They passed a bill telling landowners that it is perfectly dandy to sell a property without having groundwater hazard statements. Nitrites, they're what's for dinner!
Republicans also think that junior and senior college students should only get $12 million in scholarships for studying what they see as "in-demand" jobs and universities can expect no additional funding. They ain't paying for no darn Liberal Arts degrees.
Republicans also don't care who the governor appoints and are planning on ending the Senate approval of many of the governor’s appointees. Their philosophy is "Let the Executive do the Executive thing."
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