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Lawmakers look to cut Medicaid by ramping up administrative hurdles

Posted on January 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM by Anne Discher

In 2013, Iowa was among the first states to take up the federal option to expand Medicaid to low-income adults....

Categories: Health, Jobs & labor, Safety net & work supports

Ingredients of Iowa's recipe for budget disaster

Posted on January 26, 2024 at 9:40 PM by Mike Owen

(This blog is drawn from messages in a presentation by CGI Deputy Director Mike Owen for an Interfaith Alliance of...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Clean air & water, Family support & well-being, Health, Higher education, PK-12 schools, Public Safety

Summer EBT - Nutritional, and smart fiscal move

Posted on January 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM by Anne Discher

Making sure low-income families can feed their kids is important whether school is in session or out. The evidence of...

Categories: Family support & well-being, Food security, Health

Tagged As: Poverty, SNAP

Abortion ban fails pro-child, pro-family agenda

Posted on July 18, 2023 at 11:58 AM by Sean Finn

By Sean Finn and Samantha Tamborski, Common Good Iowa Overwhelmingly, Iowans desire the freedom to determine if and when they...

Categories: Family support & well-being, Health

Tagged As: abortion law, children and families, Governor Kim Reynolds, health care, Iowa Legislature

Don't erode SNAP and Medicaid

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

Iowa HHS abandons critical adolescent mental health data collection

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

Tagged As: LGBTQ+, Mental health, Public Health

Danger ahead: Gutting education, health and safety with tax cuts

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...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Child care, Clean air & water, Early childhood, Health, Higher education, PK-12 schools, Public Safety

Let’s Celebrate: CHIP Provides 25 Years of Coverage!

Posted on August 10, 2022 at 5:00 PM by Kelli Soyer

In 1997, Congress established the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This critical piece of legislation provides health care coverage...

Categories: Health

Tagged As: CHIP, Hawki

COVID: Recognizing a threat and a solution

Posted on January 30, 2022 at 2:11 PM by Mike Owen

When you have a health and safety problem that is driven by people refusing to act, for whatever reasons —...

Categories: Covid-19, Health, Jobs & labor

Tagged As: COVID-19, Governor Kim Reynolds, iowa legislature, Workplace safety

Mental health funding: Fool me once …

Posted on April 9, 2021 at 1:34 PM by Mary Nelle Trefz

Among several tax elements, Senate File 587, the tax bill passed by Iowa Senate on a party-line vote earlier this...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Health

Tagged As: iowa legislature, Mental health, Property tax, State taxes

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