Kathy Hogan
North Dakota State Senate
Party: DEM-NPL
District #21
After graduating from the University of Jamestown over 50 years ago, I began 40 years of public service in a range of human service organizations both public and private. The last 18 years of my professional career were as the Executive Director of Cass County Social Services. in 1989, I received my Masters in Counseling. Throughout my career, I served on over 25 Boards including the United Way, Fargo Cass Public Health, Friendship, Assistive, Centre Inc. MHA to name a few. I was actively involved in St. Anthony's parish and am an Association of the Presentation Sister, Fargo.
Q&A with Kathy:
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It has been my privilege to serve in the ND legislature since 2009 and I am running to continue public service.
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Throughout my career, I learned that support for those who have been made poor and the vulnderable was dependenat on public policies. Starting in the 1970's, I often provided
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District 21 is one of the lowest income districts in the state. The lack of affordable housing, behavioral health crisis, increasing crime and bad behaviors, the lack of child care and inflation are major challenges that I hear about every day.
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Behavioral Health, Available/affordable housing and Child Care
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Workforce can be addressed through a more stable child care system for parents; incentives, such as student loan forgiveness for workers such as teachers, nurses, skilled trades and more open immigration structures. We simply do not have enough people to fill all the positions.
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Traditionally, economic development activities have focused on bringing jobs to the FMWF area and many incentives have focused on job development. Today we need to focus on Workforce Development. Because of the loss of the Baby Boomers from the workforce, we simply do not have enough bodies to do the work. Many families with children cannot afford child care, the child care system is crumbling because of low wages and massive staff turnover - we must have a more stable child care structure that adequate pays their staff.
Finally, we need stronger support of education at all levels( pre-k to professional levels) to building a stable workforce and democracy.