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| Name | Jennifer Schultz |
| Address | 3401 E. 1st St
Duluth, Minnesota , United States |
| Email | None |
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May 20, 1971
(52 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Dec 19, 2023 08:44pm |
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| Info | Jen grew up in a small town with her older sister and a single mother who raised two daughters while attending graduate school and working full time. Jen’s mother, a retired therapist and educator, is the daughter of Dutch and Polish immigrant farmers. Jen’s late father was a U.S. Air Force Vietnam War veteran who returned home to serve his community as a firefighter. Jen’s parents reunited when she was a young adult, six years before her father lost his battle with cancer. Jen’s parents’ struggles, strength, compassion, and perseverance shaped the woman she is today – hard-working, fair, dedicated, respectful, and grounded in her values and the belief that we can all do better when we help one another.
Jen earned a Ph.D in health economics and paid for her education using student loans, scholarships, and by working multiple jobs that paid less than a minimum wage. Today she lives in Duluth with her husband and two sons, is a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and is a former Minnesota state legislator who served four successful terms representing her district and our great state of Minnesota. Through her own personal and public servant experiences, Jen knows firsthand the everyday concerns of the people in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District and understands the reality of working full time while still struggling to put food on the table. The injustice and unnecessary burdens put on working-class families are what motivated her to focus her education and career on health care and economics. Now, Jen wants to use her experiences and education to help improve the lives of her fellow Minnesotans.
While in the legislature, Jen served as Chair of House Human Services Finance & Policy Committee where she advanced measures to improve access to affordable healthcare and reduce prescription drug prices. She also served on Ways & Means, Taxes, Health Finance and Redistricting Committees, as Vice Chair of the Council of State Government Great Lakes Legislative Caucus Executive Board, and as a Commissioner on the Great Lakes Commission where she advocated for the protection of the Great Lakes, climate resilience, restoration of habitat, and sensible economic development.
During her legislative career, Jen was successful in bringing millions of dollars in bonding projects to her district, such as the Essentia hospital and medical district development and securing federal funds to clean up the St. Louis River. She has championed measures to improve the lives of the people in her district and the state of Minnesota, including:
• increasing access to affordable health coverage
• reducing the cost of prescription drugs
• protecting the elderly in long-term care facilities
• increasing wages for personal care assistants
• investing in home- and community-based services
• expanding age-friendly communities
• closing corporate tax loopholes
• funding historic health and human services bills with bipartisan support
Jen has been asked by many people throughout the Eighth District to represent them in Washington, and their message is clear: the Eighth needs someone who will work for everyone in the district and who will fight for those who have been struggling to make ends meet.
Building on her legislative successes at the State Capitol, Jen will work to make quality education more affordable and accessible, reduce the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs, invest in broadband and other essential infrastructure projects, increase economic development and support jobs in our region, protect social security, improve affordable housing, childcare and food security, and address the impacts of a changing climate.
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