Jake Johnson

Jake Johnson grew up in Stewartville with ten siblings, the son of a garbage collector and a meter reader.¹ He helped care for younger siblings after his parents divorced.¹ He and his wife, Molly, are raising four boys.¹ Molly works as a paraprofessional with children who are deaf or hard of hearing.¹

Johnson played football, basketball and baseball at Stewartville High School.¹ He credits community support, teachers, food assistance and Medicaid with helping his family through financial hardship.¹ He worked mowing lawns and received Pell Grants while attending the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.¹ After graduating, he began teaching mathematics in Rochester Public Schools.¹ He has now spent about twenty years in high school classrooms.²

Outside teaching, he has worked on his union's bargaining team and coordinated its government relations.¹ He has served on the Minnesota Jump$tart Coalition board, whose work promotes financial literacy.¹ His spare time includes distance running and reading books with his children.¹

His congressional platform calls for ending the tariffs and Iran war he argues are raising household costs.³ He supports a balanced budget amendment and says he would oppose raising the debt ceiling until the budget is balanced.³ He also advocates a new farm bill, farmers' right to repair equipment, restoring Medicaid and SNAP funding, and a data center moratorium until protections are established.³