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Climate lessons from COVID

Posted on October 7, 2020 at 3:22 PM by David Osterberg

Climate change experts at Iowa colleges and universities have for 10 years produced annual statements about Iowa impacts of human-caused...

Categories: Clean energy & climate, Covid-19, Higher education

Where do jobs come from?

Posted on September 29, 2020 at 12:00 AM by Peter Fisher

Food for thought for Iowa economic recovery policy choices: The vast majority of new businesses in Iowa are independent firms...

Categories: Covid-19, Jobs & labor

Tagged As: Economic development

As Census deadline nears, can Iowa reach a complete count?

Posted on August 28, 2020 at 1:10 PM by Stephen Dykstra

Nearly 30 percent of Iowans have yet to be counted in the 2020 Census — and the September 30 deadline...

Categories: Data

Tagged As: Census, Podcast

Statement: Senate Covid relief bill fails to meet the challenge of this unprecedented crisis

Posted on July 29, 2020 at 4:38 PM by Anne Discher

Statement from Anne Discher, executive director of the Child and Family Policy Center: “Iowans have been hit hard by the...

Categories: Covid-19, Federal policy, Racial equity

Iowa 10th on child well-being

Posted on July 8, 2020 at 8:29 AM by Stephen Dykstra

Iowa rounds out the top 10 in the 2020 national KIDS COUNT® Data Book released by the Annie E. Casey...

Categories: Data

Tagged As: Kids Count

It's past time to tear down the structural barriers to opportunity faced by Iowans of color

Posted on June 2, 2020 at 11:09 AM by Anne Discher

We at the Child and Family Policy Center have been working through feelings of sadness and anger watching the violence...

Categories: Racial equity

Young and homeless during Covid

Posted on May 21, 2020 at 5:50 PM by Stephen Dykstra

Homeless youth are navigating Covid-19 absent the safe harbor our homes are for many of us. But advocates are working...

Categories: Youth & young adults

Tagged As: Homelessness

Iowans are stepping up—it's time for our leaders to do the same

Posted on April 23, 2020 at 2:50 PM by Anne Discher

In the last few weeks I’ve had podcast conversations with colleagues at food pantries around the state (listen to this...

Categories: Covid-19, Food security

Tagged As: Medicaid, Poverty, SNAP

Historically poor commitment to schools

Posted on March 4, 2020 at 7:03 PM by Mike Owen

The only “historic” note in the latest school-aid deal is the defiance of Iowa’s tradition of commitment to education. To...

Categories: PK-12 schools

Tagged As: Supplemental State Aid