Radio Iowa You are here: Home Iowa CCI calls for $1 billion from state in pandemic relief Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is calling on Iowa lawmakers to spend the state’s billion dollar cash reserve and budget surplus on pandemic relief. The group’s calling for Medicaid coverage to be extended to all uninsured Iowans through the end of the year as well as hazard pay for essential workers, guaranteed paid sick leave and more child care assistance for working parents. Linn County Board of Supervisors chairman Stacey Walker said thousands of Iowans are on the brink of a “destitute existence.”