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Posts in category Jobs & labor

Posted on January 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM by Sean Finn

Iowa House Majority Leader Bobby Kaufmann is calling for an increase in legislators’ base salaries to $35,000. The same proposal...

Categories: Jobs & labor

Tagged As: Minimum wage

Posted on August 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM by Mike Owen

Contrary to the DOGE sentiments, Iowans should be proud of our commitment in state law to IPERS. Now is the time to reassure current employees and retirees that IPERS is secure, and to recommit to future employees that they are valued and that a secure retirement is assured to them as well.

Posted on August 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM by Mike Owen

Presidential interference with the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics is a reminder of how meddling by an Iowa governor clouded job data in our state.

Categories: Jobs & labor

Tagged As: Employment, Iowa jobs

Posted on July 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM by Sean Finn

Iowa’s economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic has ground to a halt. The state’s May report on jobs and unemployment from Iowa Workforce Development shows Iowa heading the wrong direction and losing ground faster than the rest of the nation.

Categories: Jobs & labor

Posted on April 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM by Sean Finn

Let’s Help Workers the Right Way — Not With Gimmicks By Sean Finn, CGI Policy Analyst Let’s help workers the...

Posted on January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM by Mike Owen

Common Good Iowa research has identified many ways Iowa could do better by working families who are struggling. It’s always...

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....

Posted on October 24, 2024 at 1:06 PM by Mike Owen

Immigrants are essential to Iowa's future, as new research shows. Immigrants make up 1 in 4 Iowa physicians, 1 in...

Tagged As: Immigration

Posted on June 23, 2024 at 10:44 AM by Sean Finn

Experts warned from the beginning that Iowa’s child labor law changes violate federal statutes Decades ago, this country decided to...

Categories: Jobs & labor

Posted on April 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM by Sean Finn

Rolling back teen driver restrictions: dangerous to teens, just to benefit employers Iowa Republicans are rolling back child labor protections...

Categories: Jobs & labor

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