{"id":32431,"date":"2026-04-05T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/05\/iowa-needs-workers-but-iowa-lawmakers-are-driving-them-away-opinion-the-des-moines-register\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:25:00","slug":"iowa-needs-workers-but-iowa-lawmakers-are-driving-them-away-opinion-the-des-moines-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/05\/iowa-needs-workers-but-iowa-lawmakers-are-driving-them-away-opinion-the-des-moines-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa needs workers, but Iowa lawmakers are driving them away | Opinion &#8211; The Des Moines Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxPQ2FmUGtmNjctSzdyLVpuaUt3c1E1S3VHQWlBSVVwSUFUVjFPbWswSUNZS1hKa0FLZ1lnYi1BZHYxMTh3NncyTi1rcXdtNzg5N3ZxTm5nV2g3b01Scmh1OEpVM1RDX0drdnZuS3JZa2R2dEpmekZueHkzR1drMzlRVTFsTzZ5Zk1scmEtN0o3b1ZUdHVaX0RXd2pPUGZRQ3VNT1VlSV80NVRuVFN6ZzhlTXcwdkRvVFJ1RHh5Z21rVTFyUEJ0RVNwTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa needs workers, but Iowa lawmakers are driving them away | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Des Moines Register<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa needs workers, but Iowa lawmakers are driving them away | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;The Des Moines Register<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}