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From the Sioux City Journal...Four lawmakers age 30 and younger, including Rep. Elesha Gayman, D-Davenport, want to create a Generation Iowa Commission to make recommendations on how best to keep young, educated adults from leaving Iowa. Statehouse leaders have tried numerous strategies to keep the best and brightest at home -- including an ill-fated bill two years ago that would have exempted Iowans under 30 from paying income tax.
I know Elesha Gayman and know that keeping young Iowans in the state is one of her top priorities. Gayman writes...
The “Generation Iowa” initiative will be housed in the Department of Economic Development and it will serve three purposes; make recommendations to the legislature on behalf of young Iowans, help the Economic Development Department recruit businesses and promote Iowa, and finally outline best practices for businesses to utilize when trying to recruit and retain young people.It is also a subject that I have written about numerous times, including these posts about rising cost of college, our debt for diploma system, and investing in our Universities.
It is good to see Elesha and other young legislators taking action this issue.
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Hmmm... Seems simple. Pay more. Most of my friends who left Iowa in years past did so because they couldn't afford to stay any longer. It's not that they WANTED to leave; they HAD to.
How do you get companies to pay more? Beats me.
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