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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...

Tagged As: Preschool

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...

Categories: Food security, Health

Tagged As: CHIP, Hawki, Medicaid, SNAP

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...

Categories: Health

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...

Tagged As: iowa legislature, LGBTQ+

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...

Tagged As: iowa legislature, LGBTQ+

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...

Categories: PK-12 schools

Tagged As: Income tax, Vouchers

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...
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