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 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...
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 —...
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...
Posted on December 14, 2020 at 9:40 AM by Anne Discher
A troubling share of Iowa families with children are struggling to put food on the table, pay rent and stay...
