{"id":6732,"date":"2017-08-24T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:57:16","slug":"senator-bill-dix-change-brings-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/senator-bill-dix-change-brings-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bill Dix: Change Brings Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">In my opening day speech to the Iowa Senate I promised Iowans the Senate would pass legislation to expand growth and opportunities for all of us. My colleagues and I kept our promise to Iowans by passing bold, pro-growth reforms. Over the last several days the results of those reforms are becoming clearer.<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Governor Reynolds released a statement on August 18, noting the state\u2019s unemployment insurance tax rate will decrease an average of 25% on 2018 wages. This decrease, taking effect January 1, 2018, reflects the solvency of our unemployment trust fund. The latest unemployment numbers, released on the same day, also shows the strength of our workforce. Iowa\u2019s unemployment rate remained at 3.2 percent and below the national rate of 4.3 percent in July.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">A few days later on August 23, it was announced Iowa\u2019s Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen is reviewing another proposed rate decrease in the state\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation premiums. The Iowa Insurance Division on July 1, 2017, approved a rate decrease of 3.9% and this latest proposal is an additional 8.7% decrease for January 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Recently, Iowa current workers\u2019 compensation premium rates were the 24th<\/span> <span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">highest in the country, ten years ago those same rates were the fifth<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">lowest. Bureaucrats and judges implemented costly and anti-competitive decisions, negatively impacting businesses and employees in this state. The passage of Workers\u2019 Compensation reform restored the balance to Iowa\u2019s system and lowered costs for job creators.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">These new rates are a victory for all Iowans. When the cost of doing business in Iowa is lower, employers have the opportunity to grow their businesses, the state and local economies benefit from their investments, Iowa is more attractive to new businesses and entrepreneurs, and those results are more career opportunities for Iowans.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">This latest news shows these reforms are shaping Iowa\u2019s economy to be more vibrant and competitive with any state in this country. And together, as Iowans, we can achieve that goal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let&#8217;s make it happen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleagues and I kept our promise to Iowans by passing bold, pro-growth reforms. Over the last several days the results of those reforms are becoming clearer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3Wb-1KA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}