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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 2008
Page
1
Governor Culver will ask the legislature to raise the bottle deposit from 5 to 10 cents and retain 1 cent for handling, with 1 cent directed to the REAP environmental program. Consumers would receive 8 cents back.
Stores can retain one cent per bottle return to cover handling costs while the remaining nine cents go to the state’s 10 cent deposit. One cent will fund the REAP program, state officials say, fully funded for the first time.
A referenced plan would return 8 of 10 cents to consumers while current policy refunds the full 5-cent deposit. The change implies shifting consumer refunds and merchant handling of dangsit credits.
Beverage distributors charge retailers a 5 cent deposit on delivery. When items are returned they pay the retailer 6 cents 5 cents for the deposit and a 1 cent handling fee. Distributors keep unredeemed deposits.
The Generation Iowa Commission proposes tax credits higher wages quality-of-life upgrades and student loan help to persuade college graduates to stay. The 15 member panel notes an unknown cost but warns of a 150000 worker shortage as the baby boom retires. Lt Gov Judge noted the need for new solutions at a Friday news conference. Iowa leads the Midwest in brain gain with 8200 more out of state residents entering Iowa colleges than Iowa high school graduates leaving.
The Generation Iowa Commission report urges Iowa to create a targeted student loan repayment program with a progressive repayment schedule and to raise wage thresholds in job creation programs to attract and retain young adults.
Molly Rossiter reports University of Iowa lecturer David Gould started the Legacy Letter Project inviting older adults to write to anonymous college students. The 10 point advice list includes reading expanding world and face to face communication. Over 200 letters arrived last year and the project now extends beyond the classroom with ongoing student correspondence.
The Earthpark indoor rain forest project reported unconfirmed pledges of at least 50 million to unlock a 48.3 million federal grant. Des Moines philanthropist Ted Townsend led with nearly 32.9 million, backing from Pella Corp Vermeer Manufacturing Principal Financial Group and others. Congress then rescinded the grant, voiding the application.
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