Good evening, and welcome to iowa. Gton, tonight marks the second of three debates in the race for Iowa Governor. To bring it to you with our partners, the andington hawkeye newspaper the greater burlington partnership. Incumbentxt hour, Governor Terry and jack hatch, his democratic challenge, will chance questions from our panelists. Kenneth, danielle, and the managing editor of the hawk cay, dale allison. Getting questions from you, our viewers, and readers, through twitter and facebook, live throughout this program. Use the hashtag iowagovernordebate. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome republic Governor Terry and Democratic State senator jack hatch. [applause] the overall theme, if you will, economy. S on the from jobs to job creation to infrastructure. On jobs. Topic will be in this, we will talk about job insensitives, like those used to build the fertilizer plant being built not here, and the minimum wage. We begin with jobs. Job creation and sustainment is a very big political
Created and developed the avenue of the saints. Thats whats going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing Job Opportunities for Small Businesses in this state. Lets move now on to the topic of minimum wage. Danielle has a question for senator hatch. Senator hatch, in your campaign, you talk about growing Small Businesses and also increasing the minimum wage. Now, many of the Small Business owners weve heard from say theyre worried about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their business. How can you be in favor of both . Well, you know, good question. [laughter] but youre assuming that all Small Businesses pay below the minimum wage, which is wrong. Right now, there are 216,000 iowans that get less than the 10. 10 that we are proposing. Thats not a high wage. That allows an individual working 40 hours a week, works by the rules, works hard, works every day, to get just above the level of poverty. No iowan
Just with construction, with the numbers for 2013 . Um you can get back to me in writing. Yeah. Im going to let tom look this up for me. [laughter] all right. And how about veterans unemployment . Be do we know where that is . Yes. Okay. Um, okay. Gulf war era veterans had an Unemployment Rate of 7. 3 in december, and this is down from 10. 8 a year earlier. Uhhuh. In december of 2013, there were 2. 9 million gulf war era veterans, and they served anywhere in the world since september 2001. Okay. In december 2013 the Unemployment Rate, the Unemployment Rate for veterans aged 1824 was 15. 6 which is little different because these sample sizes are so small. This is little different from the 11. 4 Unemployment Rate for nonveterans of that age. Uhhuh. Veterans overall make up about 4 of unemployed persons as of december. Okay. I do remember weve been working hard in various ways on this issue because of the fact that, um, for a while we were having extraordinarily high Unemployment Rates wi
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Of what is around the corner if they make the effort. You were positive on their intent. Youve taken us through Family Planning and the nuclear deal. We really appreciate the work that was done with the wilson center. We look forward to tomorrow as well. I think your parents will be very proud. Very proud. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] the white house says the president will announce next friday results of his review of National Security agency surveillance programs. The president has been meeting with lawmakers and officials and is considering more than 40 recommendations from a Residential Commission that will from a president ial commission. He has indicated he will make significant changes. Students at the u. S. Military academies believe they have to put up with sexist and offensive behavior, according to a pentagon report. Reported Sexual Assaults were to 70 during the last sch