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Party Of Death?
Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare: “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Affordable Care Act, Blog for Iowa, Budget, Climate Action, Climate Change, economic inequality, gun control, Medicare, poverty, Racism in America, Republican Obstruction, Republicn Policy
Tagged medicaid cuts
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Progress Iowa On The State Of The State
Once again the folks at Progress Iowa listen to Governor Branstad and find his words do not match reality. Three press releases from Progress Iowa’s Communication Director Monica Biddix shows how the Governor is out of step with Iowans. Three … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Jobs, middle-class, poverty, Progress Iowa
Tagged Iowa water quality, sales tax for schools, state of the state
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Why we must listen to Pope Francis
The following is an email sent from the Bernie Sanders campaign: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance. Politics is, instead, an … Continue reading
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Economy, food, Food Insecurity, Immigration, Income inequality, poverty
Tagged Dorothy Day, Pope Francis
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Poverty Vultures
Out of sight of the eyes of anything resembling reporters the poverty industries in the USA are cranking along in high gear. Most of these are protected from any harm by Republicans from the county courthouse through the state house … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Jobs, minimum wage, poverty, working poor
Tagged poverty industries, working poor
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Why We Must Regulate Financial Firms
Americans seem to love their rich folk. They look at them as superheroes that have somehow shook the bonds of terrestrial powers and made themselves above other humans. Thus we tend to think that those who have money are not … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, financial reform, poverty
Tagged Chicago school crisis, financial regulation, Greek crisis, municipal bankruptcies, Wall Street
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Humiliating The Poor
This is now something we do in America. No more following the teachings of most religions and ethics. Poor people are to be treated as a pariah in America these days. Reasoning in America today says poor people are responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, food, Food Insecurity, poverty
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Governor Endangers Vulnerable Iowans, School Funding, Workforce Development, Legislative News
ed. note: This is an edited version of the Courtney newsletter. For the whole newsletter, please go here. SENATE: GOVERNOR’S PLAN MAY ENDANGER VULNERABLE IOWANS In January, Governor Branstad surprised Iowans by proposing to privatize almost all of Iowa’s Medicaid … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Budget, Courtney, Courtney Report, Economy, Education, Iowa Legislature, Iowa legislature 2015, Jobs, medicaid expansion, middle-class, poverty
Tagged medicaid, school funding
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Republicans Fake Concern About Income Inequality
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
Posted in Branstad, Economy, Elizabeth Warren, GOP, Iowa Policy Project, Jobs, minimum wage, poverty, Republican hypocrisy, Republicn Policy, Walmart
Tagged mark dayton, Minnesota, Scott Walker, Wisconsin
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Poverty, Health, Food Issues For Iowans
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
Posted in Economy, Food Insecurity, Iowa Policy Project, Jobs, poverty
Tagged Branstad
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