{"id":1727,"date":"2021-02-10T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:43:07","slug":"register-now-for-public-policy-discussion-with-business-leaders-and-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/register-now-for-public-policy-discussion-with-business-leaders-and-legislators\/","title":{"rendered":"Register Now for Public Policy Discussion with Business Leaders and Legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><label data-bind=\"text: Event.EventStartAndEndDateAndTimeAsLongString\">Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00 PM &#8211; 4:00 PM<\/label>\u00a0<label data-bind=\"text: EventTimeZoneAbbreviation\">CST via\u00a0<\/label><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZcpcOmhqDwvH9PmXzah-SKWQT2R25DKLOqq\">Zoom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hiawatha Economic Alliance is partnering once again with Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and Marion Chamber of Commerce for a discussion with business leaders and area legislators. For this discussion, our business leader panelists will discuss the most pressing workforce issues facing our metro area including child care, the talent pipeline, the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurereadyiowa.gov%2Finnovation&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cckoch%40cedarrapids.org%7C1c7b69d1074a43f3c17e08d8c9f7f135%7C592ba20e0f7f4af3a6cd3ec9a329f27c%7C0%7C0%7C637481414027740609%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=A7NeulmegoWgWCU%2FfGMrsqwr7qn05Koh4nMY1AQcBjU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Employer Innovation Fund<\/a><\/strong>, and more. Area legislators will be on hand to respond and attendees will also have an opportunity to weigh in and\/or ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>Our panelist for February 26 include Aaron-Marie Thoms, Raining Rose\u2019s VP of People &amp; Culture at Raining Rose, Jim Buie, Involta\u2019s President, Sue Sedrel, Involta\u2019s VP of Human Resources, Aaron Horn, NewBoCo\u2019s Executive Director Kim Becicka, Kirkwood Community College\u2019s VP of Continuing Education &amp; Training Services.<\/p>\n<p>Register <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZcpcOmhqDwvH9PmXzah-SKWQT2R25DKLOqq\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00 PM &#8211; 4:00 PM\u00a0CST via\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZcpcOmhqDwvH9PmXzah-SKWQT2R25DKLOqq\">Zoom<\/a> Hiawatha Economic Alliance is partnering once again with Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and Marion Chamber of Commerce for a discussion with business leaders and<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/register-now-for-public-policy-discussion-with-business-leaders-and-legislators\/\"> &#8230;Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}