Posted on May 22, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Anne Discher
When it comes to assuring preschool for young children, Iowa’s is a story of highs and lows, according to the...
Posted on April 3, 2023 at 8:27 PM by Mike Owen
SNAP and Medicaid not only boost low-income families with federal funds, but local and state economies as well. That's one...
Posted on March 7, 2023 at 9:02 AM by Anne Discher
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced last month it will no longer conduct a planned 2023 survey...
Posted on March 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Mike Owen
The road is closed, the bridge is out, and tax-cut-obsessed legislators are stepping on the gas. Already, Iowans started the...
Posted on February 17, 2023 at 8:08 PM by Mike Owen
We started putting a spotlight on Iowa’s most lucrative business tax credit over 15 years ago. Big, profitable companies were...
Posted on February 9, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Mike Owen
A new proposal in the Iowa Legislature turns Iowa priorities and values upside down. At a time we are doing...
Posted on February 3, 2023 at 2:44 PM by Amber Gustafson
The Iowa legislature is now discussing bills that say that my LGBTQ kid is “divisive” and anything that would represent...
Posted on February 3, 2023 at 2:13 PM by Anne Discher
Common Good Iowa today released the following statement from Anne Discher, executive director of CGI, about House File 190, which...
Posted on January 18, 2023 at 10:40 AM by Anne Discher
Common Good Iowa executive director delivered the following comments at the January 17, 2023, public hearing on HSB 1, which...
Posted on November 9, 2022 at 12:27 PM by Mike Owen
Even before the polls closed yesterday, we already knew the big challenges facing our state. They are real and they...