May 2021
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What Iowans Can Get Out Of The New Child Tax Credit
The effort to help Americans (and Iowans) recover from the COVID-19 pandemic continues. In addition to an extended filing deadline for taxes and the waiving of unemployment taxes, Americans will also receive an increased tax credit for dependent children for 2021. The new value is $3,000 for every child ages 6-17 and $3,600 for every…
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Get Unemployment Benefits In 2020? Here’s Why You’ll Save Money On Taxes
If at any time last year you received unemployment benefits, a portion or all of those benefits will not be taxed. Iowa’s Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne worked with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) to add a provision to President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, the COVID-19 relief bill, that would waive the first $10,200 of…
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A Tax Bill, And End To The Legislative Session, Maybe In Sight
As the Iowa legislative session enters its eighteenth week, a few funding issues stand in the way of the session adjourning. But after meetings between House and Senate Republicans and Gov. Kim Reynolds, the final piece may be ready. “This bill is the pathway forward,” said Sen. Dan Dawson, the chair of the Ways and…
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How To Reactivate Your Iowa Voter Registration
Hundreds of thousands of Iowans lost their active voter registration status last month due to a new sweeping elections law that state Republicans passed in 2021.
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Iowa To Increase COVID Vaccine Pop-Up Sites
As demand for vaccines wanes, Iowa is pushing to scoop up the wary and those who haven’t had an opportunity to get vaccinated before now. In a Wednesday press conference, Gov. Kim Reynolds said the state is working with local health departments to host pop-up clinics at events like baseball games and farmers’ markets to…
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Iowa Confirms Another Young Child Died From COVID
The Iowa Department of Public Health has confirmed another child death from COVID-19. “The child was under the age of five, and had significant underlying health conditions,” Sarah Ekstrand, the public information officer for IDPH, said in an email to Starting Line. According to the email, the child died in March. Only two child deaths…
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Democrats Blast Reynolds’ Rejection Of Funds To Protect Schools
Iowa legislative Democrats have criticized Gov. Kim Reynolds’ pandemic response since the early days of COVID-19 in the state, so the Governor’s Thursday night admission on national television that she returned $95 million in federal dollars meant for surveillance testing in schools was one more sign of complacency. “[Reynolds] has quit in the fight against…
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Videos Show Sioux City Officer Push Black Man Onto Table At Perkins, Aim Taser At Him
Videos have quickly circulated on Facebook in Iowa over the past day that show an incident from a Sioux City Perkins restaurant early Thursday morning where a police officer instructs a Black man to leave the premises, grabs ahold of his arm, pushes the man on a table and then points a taser at his…
