Category Archives: Blog for Iowa

Reminder! Progress Iowa Corn Feed Tomorrow

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Dave Bradley

For Immediate Release: September 9, 2017 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0530 SUNDAY: 3rd Annual Progress Iowa Corn Feed at 1:00 PM Des Moines, Iowa – The 3rd annual Progress Iowa Corn Feed will take place Sunday, September 10th, including featured speakers Senator Jeff … Continue reading →

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Reynolds-Branstad Have Been Disastrous for Iowa

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Dave Bradley

{Four people who could easily do a better job than Reynolds. Unfortunately, Todd Prichard has dropped out already.} Cutting Long-term care Ombudsman visits to nursing homes just the latest in a long string of bad decisions. In an editorial in … Continue reading →

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5 Things To Know About The Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case Before The Supreme Court

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Trish Nelson

https://www.brennancenter.org/ 5 Things to Know About the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case Michael Li, Thomas Wolf With Gill v. Whitford, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the most important case in decades dealing with how Americans are represented in Congress and … Continue reading →

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Herbicide Linked To Damage Of More Than 150,000 Acres Of Iowa’s Soybean Crop

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Austin Frerick calls on EPA to ban the use of Monsanto’s Dicamba until further testing. WINTERSET – Today, Third Congressional District candidate Austin Frerick called on the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture to halt the … Continue reading →

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“Show Me the Money,” Wage Stagnation Among Workers in the United States

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Trish Nelson

by Ralph Scharnau The stock market breaks records, banks have nicely recovered from the Great Recession, unemployment hovers at historic lows, and the economy hums along. This idyllic picture masks the struggles of ordinary workers. They face a variety of … Continue reading →

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Why Iowa Republicans Know They Can Get Away With Anything

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Even more Medicaid cuts?  Why would Republicans do something this despicable?  Answer: Because they can. Because they have been getting away with it and will probably continue to get away with it in the forseeable future. Iowa Republicans know there … Continue reading →

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Labor Day 2017: The State of Working Iowa

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Trish Nelson

This article by Colin Gordon, Senior Researcher at the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project, appeared in the Des Moines Register September 2, 2017. Labor Day is always a good time to take stock of the state of working Iowa. Patterns of … Continue reading →

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Corporate Tax Cuts And Jobs

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Dave Bradley

It’s a Myth That Corporate Tax Cuts Mean More Jobs By SARAH ANDERSON AUG. 30, 2017   “The arithmetic for us is simple,” AT&T’s chief executive, Randall Stephenson, said on CNBC in May. If Congress were to cut the 35 percent tax on … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: Labor Day Edition

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Dave Bradley

Labor Day 2017. Let there be no doubt that organized labor in the United States is seen as an enemy of the United States by the current administration. But fortunately for them they don’t have to do the heavy lifting … Continue reading →

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Progress Iowa: Apple Deal Ripped In Iowa And Around The Country

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Dave Bradley

RE: RELEASE: Business leader: Apple deal gets an ‘A’ for return on investment Matt Sinovic <matt@progressiowa.org> Thursday, August 31, 2017 3:14 PM How do you know the Apple deal isn’t being received well? Less than an hour ago, the Governor’s … Continue reading →

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