People Over Politics

 Too many Iowans still need help to make ends meet today. Their wages simply aren’t keeping up with the rising costs of healthcare, food, child care, and utility bills. While we recognize the state legislature cannot control the national economy's ups and downs, we can help lower costs and reduce living expenses for Iowans.  

Here is how we put more money in the pockets of Iowans:

• Expand access to affordable childcare
• Create more affordable housing options
• Lower taxes for working families instead of more handouts to big corporations
• Cap healthcare costs and expand access to mental healthcare

 Everyone deserves the right to make their own healthcare decisions, especially when it comes to reproductive care and abortion. Lawmakers have no place interfering in someone else’s decisions about when to start a family because private health care decisions belong between an individual, their family, and their doctor. While a strong majority of Iowans support reproductive freedom, Reynolds and GOP lawmakers passed a strict six-week ban on abortion that is now law in Iowa. 

Here is how we restore the reproductive freedom of Iowans:

• Overturn the GOP’s six-week abortion ban 
• Guarantee reproductive freedom by adding it to Iowa’s Constitution
• Expand access to reproductive health care across Iowa
• Protect access to infertility treatments (IVF) and birth control

 For generations, Iowans have counted on great public schools to educate our kids and be the heart of communities large and small. But we’ve lost ground because GOP lawmakers have underfunded public schools and shifted almost $400 million from public schools to private schools in the last two years alone. Iowa kids in public schools are losing out and teachers are leaving the classroom. 

Here is how we renew our commitment to great public schools:  

• Fully fund public schools to keep up with rising costs and guarantee every kid in every zip code gets a great education
• Raise pay for all educators and give them a seat at the table
• End vouchers and keep public money in public schools 
• Empower local schools and AEAs to do what’s best for students 
• End book bans passed for the special interests

It’s time. A majority of adult Iowans support legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Legalizing marijuana for adult use will keep Iowans safe, stop our tax dollars from going to neighboring states, improve the quality of life for Iowans suffering from chronic illnesses, and stop wasting state resources to unfairly punish Iowans.

Here is how we can do the right thing and keep Iowans safe: 

• Regulate a safe product that Iowans already use
• Use new tax revenue to invest in education and our local communities
• Stop wasting taxpayer dollars and unfairly punishing Iowans
• Fix Iowa’s broken medicinal cannabis law