Iowa is one of many U.S. states that’s replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and there are many ways to recognize the holiday in 2024.
Three University of Iowa graduates and two faculty members made the National Book Award longlist. Winners will be announced Nov. 20.
Iowa voters want their leaders to listen to what they want. And what voters want is key to the policy agenda for the 2025 legislative session announced Thursday by Iowa House Democrats in the state house.
The University of Iowa has renamed For The Kids Way to Hawkeye Wave Way, honoring a heartfelt tradition involving a children’s hospital and football games.
Iowans have long struggled to find reliable, affordable child care, often waiting months or more on lists to get their children into a center. After little progress, Iowa's Republican lawmakers, who have a majority in state government, made several changes in laws passed in recent years. Their solution? Younger, teenage workers and larger class sizes.
Des Moines offers a variety of volunteer opportunities to lend a helping hand.
Celebrate some uniquely Iowa folklore at the Van Meter Visitor Festival
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child's life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for families.
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
Kamala Harris has said that she will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging and give the federal government more authority to prevent consolidation in the food industry, if elected. Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to impose tariffs and reduce food imports, a plan that would cause food prices to increase.
