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Contact your legislators:


Local Politicians


http://www.cedarfalls.com/index.asp?NID=93


State Politicians


Governor Culver - http://www.governor.iowa.gov/administration/contact/

Speaker Pat Murphy - Pat.Murphy@legis.state.ia.us

Majority Leader Mike Gronstal - michael.gronstal@legis.state.ia.us

Jeff Danielson - jeff.danielson@legis.state.ia.us

Bill Dotzler - bill.dotzler@legis.state.ia.us

Bob Kressig - Bob.Kressig@legis.state.ia.us

Doris Kelley - Doris.Kelley@legis.state.ia.us

Deborah Berry - Deborah.Berry@legis.state.ia.us

Tami Wiencek - Tami.Wiencek@legis.state.ia.us

Not listed? Find your legislator here - http://www.legis.state.ia.us/


Federal Politicians


President George Bush - http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/

Senator Charles Grassley - http://grassley.senate.gov/public/

Senator Tom Harkin - http://harkin.senate.gov/



Student Debt Studies:


http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Fiscal/factbook/Iowa_Factbook_2006.pdf -

Talks about tuition increases at the four-year public universities in Iowa.


http://www.iaworkforcepartners.org/images/text/IWC%20Meeting%20Iowa's%20Workforce%20Challenge.pdf –

Discusses the Iowa worker shortage taking place in the next 4 years.


http://projectonstudentdebt.org/files/pub/State_by_State_report_FINAL.pdf -

Discusses the student loan debt by state and where Iowa ranks in comparison.


Key points from student debt studies…


On average, students who attend a public university in Iowa graduate with $23,198 of debt. This amount ranks amongst the highest in the country, compared to $11,000 among public university undergraduates who graduate with the least amount of student debt.


According to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, textbooks have risen at twice the rate of inflation over the last 20 years.


Because of issues such as high student loan debt upon graduation, Iowa is a leading exporter of college graduates. This problem will have an impact on Iowa’s projected worker shortage of 150,000 employees to take place in the year 2012. The state of Iowa only has 3,000,000 citizens, causing a potential crisis if our legislators do not take action to correct the worker shortage a top priority.


Any comments, questions, or concerns that you would like to address regarding student legislative efforts may be voiced by emailing NISG.