Vilsack says FEMA has asked Iowa for a list of the kind of permanent and temporary housing that's available for hurricane victims. Nobody wants to sleep on a cot for six months. Nobody wants to sleep in a place where there are 15,000 other people, ... To the extent that states can provide better detailed information about the housing opportunities, that may be persuasive to a lot of families.
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We have the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, our emergency management division (and) our Iowa National Guard working with local folks to try to put hundreds of thousands of sandbags in appropriate locations to try to reduce the damage and the impact. ... It's just a race against time.Tom Vilsack
Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.
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QUOTE I certainly understand the steps being taken by communities, ... What you are seeing is a reaction, a justifiable reaction, on the part of Iowans to protect their children.
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I'm concerned about the anxiety and stress of the families here in Newton and in the Amana area,
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It was a very tough winter for us. We didn't have the normal thaw, and as a result we're getting essentially all of this water at one time,
Tom Vilsack
The state and this city are engaged in a global competition for economic opportunity,
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