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U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey is campaigning for president in western Iowa today. It’s his third trip to the state as a Democratic presidential candidate.
At a high school in Sergeant Bluff, Booker talked about the need to invest in public education.
Booker says teachers and other professionals in the school system should be paid more for what they do.
He added the nation’s tax code allows people who work for a hedge fund to pay a lower percentage of their salary in taxes than people in education jobs.
(0416booker 0:10)) And so I’m going to be working to increase peoples salary - not just teachers, but school professionals - as well as do a debt forgiveness program as well to hopefully incentivize more people to work in our schools.
Booker says access to education should not be determined by the zip code people live in.
Randy Feenstra, one of the three fellow Republicans trying to oust U.S. Rep. Steve King, brought in four times more campaign cash than the congressman over the first three months of the 2019-20 election cycle.
King's campaign organization reported he raised a little more than $61 thousand dollars for the first quarter, which trailed the $260 thousand raised by Feenstra, a state senator from Hull, Iowa. former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is now the U.S. Ambassador to China, donated to Feenstra’s campaign.
