All reports by date
Supports for Iowans during COVID-19
5/19/20Update: Key counties to watch
5/18/20COVID-19: Stabilizing child care
5/8/20COVID metrics arbitrary, backward facing
4/4/20‘A bad idea all around’
1/31/20Skimpy health plans: No solution
7/30/18Perils of a constitutional convention
3/21/18Resolutions now before the Iowa Legislature — ostensibly for specific purposes — actually could put our entire Constitution at risk.
Medicaid expansion: Boost to economy
2/12/18Iowa’s decision to participate in the Medicaid expansion has not only provided health insurance coverage to tens of thousands of low-wage workers, but also provided an enormous boost to the state’s economy.
Opportunity missed in ‘unleashing opportunity’
1/10/18We start off the legislative session not knowing where the funding will come from to maintain the services we have, with legislative leadership locked into an agenda to drive down those services, and no real sense of how the Governor will protect long-held priorities of Iowans.
‘Tis the season of giveaways
12/20/17The tax bill puts the rhetoric of politicians and economic charlatans to the test — a test of trickle-down economics. It has never worked and will fail again.