Category Archives: Iowa Policy Project

Wages, Jobs, Child Care, Wage Theft: The Courtney Report

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Note: This is edited from the weekly email report from Senator Courtney. To see the full report please go to Senator Courtney’s website. Note2: This post missed the schedule last week. To make sure that important info in here is … Continue reading →

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Republicans Fake Concern About Income Inequality

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Dave Bradley

The Iowa senate passed a raise in minimum wage Monday on pretty much of a party line vote. One Republican joined twenty six Democrats to pass the bill. This would be good news if Democrats controlled the other legislative House … Continue reading →

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No Funding For Schools; No Taxes On Some Corporations

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Dave Bradley

It surely is a strange situation when we have our Republican legislators tell us out of one side of their mouths that there is no money for Iowa schools to maintain the status quo, yet from the other side of … Continue reading →

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Wage Theft And Money For Schools: The Courtney Report

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Once again we will take excerpts from Senator Courtney’s newsletter. WHAT DO OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS NEED? Iowa’s future depends on high-quality local schools. That’s why I’m working hard to ensure that every Iowa child gets the best education possible and … Continue reading →

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And The Year Starts Out Really Sucky

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Dave Bradley

I do not know any better way to describe it. We are barely one week into 2015 and it is starting out to look to be even more sucky than the recent sucky year of 2014. Mostly due to the … Continue reading →

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Poverty, Health, Food Issues For Iowans

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Dave Bradley

Every time I see a big positive TV ad for Terry Branstad, my first thought is – “What is it that we are not being told?” While he brags on employment under his administration, most observers understand that Iowa has … Continue reading →

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Business Climateers

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Dave Bradley

Iowa’s Policy Project’s Peter Fisher is one of the best around these woods for ferreting out the utter BS that is being peddled by the business lobby to make themselves seem like a picked on group. To me, Peter is … Continue reading →

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IPP: Minimum Wage And Business Taxes

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Dave Bradley

Once again, our friends at Iowa Policy Project come to controversies with those nasty little things called facts. Not sure if they meant for this to happen, but they published two guest opinions in local papers that took a couple … Continue reading →

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Iowa Job Growth — Steadily Slow

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Dave Bradley

The Iowa Policy Project today (July 18) released the following statement by Executive Director Mike Owen about the latest numbers: “Stability in Iowa’s job market received a boost in June from public-sector jobs. Despite a 4,300-job increase in government jobs, … Continue reading →

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Immigrants In Iowa – From IPP

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Dave Bradley

Once more, the folks over at Iowa Policy Project take an hot button issue, take the emotion out of it and give us a sober fact based report. I certainly wish some of our politicians would take a cue from … Continue reading →

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