Iowa pilot boosts child care wages and slots across seven communities
The Iowa Women's Foundation reports private donations of 1.4 million from 373 local businesses funded a pilot that increased wages and benefits for child care workers, added 275 slots, and retained 223 workers across seven counties including Allamakee Cerro Gordo Dubuque Hamilton Howard Mitchell. The effort used a public private funding mix to create a sustainable model and may expand statewide per Common Sense Institute projections.
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Iowa Women’s Foundation
Deann Cook
The
Altoona
Foundation
Cook
Allamakee
Cerro Gordo
Dubuque
Hamilton
Howard
Mitchell
Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Johnson County
Turner
Common Sense Institute
Jason Passmore
Howard County Business and Tourism
Passmore
Bus Rapid Transit study eyed for CRANDIC route in Iowa City area
Johnson County and neighboring communities review a feasibility study for a 90 million capital plan to launch a Bus Rapid Transit line on the CRANDIC railroad in North Liberty and Iowa City. Estimated 4,300 daily riders could grow beyond 5,000 by 2045 with weekend service and grant funding explored by Nelson Nygaard and Felsburg Holt Ullevig.
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Crandic
Federal Transit Administration
Federal Transit
Crandic Railroad
Johnson County
North Liberty
Iowa City
Nelson Nygaard and
Felsburg Holt & Ullevig
Coralville
Iowa City Transit
University of Iowa
Municipal Planning Organization
MPO Board
Kent Ralston
Metropolitan Planning Organization of
Recount rules shape Iowa ballot review in Clinton County
Iowa counties debated how to recount ballots with a machine or by hand, as a state guidance warns against hybrid recounts. Muscatine and Clinton counties plan early starts while Scott and Johnson counties await a third board member. Officials note the process is largely ministerial and bound by state deadlines and guidance.
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Clinton
Eric van Lancker
FairVote
U.S
Iowa
Secretary of State
Muscatine County
Tibe Vander Linden
Vander Linden
Clinton County
van Lancker
Ashley Hunt
Hunt
Johnson
Scott
Scott County
Johnson County
Kerri Tompkins
Scott County Board of Supervisors
Tompkins
State Board of
Lee County
Denise Fraise
Fraise
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
U.S. House Republicans
Bryan Steil
R-Wis
Committee of House Administration
Steil
Congress
House
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Postville Childcare Services
Erin. Murphy
Thegazette
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Rhys Riordan
Arc of Southeast
the Gazette
Tom Barton
Gazette Des Moines Bureau
Megan.woolard
Thegazette.com
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