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Ai-jen Poo and Mary Kay Henry to speak at Iowa People’s Presidential Forum
By Iris Olivares Right now, Iowans have an enormous amount of power to shape the direction of the future. A lot of people are depending on us Iowans to push the political field to meet the urgency of the moment, including immigrants, young people, workers, women, and people of color. I belong to all of those categories. My undocumented parents brought me to the US when I was eight months old, and Iowa is the only home that I’ve known. I applied to DACA when I was 16, and that’s why I was able to get a job providing long term care to clients in need.My goal was to go to school and become a nurse, but I couldn’t accept the grants I got to go to college because of my legal status. I was caught in a low-paying job that was high stress for me and for my clients and their families who struggled to pay for care. That’s why I’m so excited to announce that two of the country’s most important movement leaders, Mary Kay Henry, the President of SEIU, the largest...
read moreThe Nine Questions Every Candidate Should Answer
Elections are a big opportunity for us to push our bold issue solutions and help shape the issue environment that our elected officials and candidates operate in.
Now is the time to ask targeted questions – beyond stump speeches – and challenge candidates to be bolder!
Here are nine questions that come directly out of our organizing campaigns:
Take action for a living wage in Iowa.
Iowa Senate Dems introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage to $8.75 - an insult to Iowa workers. Take action for a living wage!
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