WATCH: Who is the “Big Beautiful Bill” for?
We're wading through this tax bill. And it's not looking good.
May
2025
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Amie Rivers
Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she was an award-winning journalist at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; now, she very much enjoys making TikToks and memes and getting pet photos in her inbox.
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May
2025
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WATCH: Iowa legislator’s ‘bullying tactics and threats’
*shade sound from Drag Race*
May
2025
23
WATCH: A door to unwinding Medicaid expansion in Iowa
Federal and state budgets are connected. When fewer Medicaid dollars flow to the states, those cuts have to be made somewhere.
May
2025
23
WATCH: What’s wrong with the coverage of the Caitlin Clark/Angel Reese “rivalry”
The Clark-Reese rivalry is getting played up in the media, but is it good for the game? The players? The fans? Angel and Caitlin themselves?
Listen to Cornhole Champions where you listen to podcasts.
May
2025
23
JBS workers at 2 Iowa plants win back pensions in national contract
Meatpacking workers at JBS plants across the country, including two in Iowa, just ratified a first-ever national contract across all plants.
May
2025
22
WATCH: What you need to know about the US House reconciliation bill
Real efficient government (for rich people)
May
2025
22
WATCH: How US House Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will impact Iowans
US House Republicans are pushing for major Medicaid cuts. Anne Discher, executive director of Common Good Iowa, explains how that will impact Iowa.
May
2025
22
WATCH: How Medicaid cuts impact states
There are only so many ways that states like Iowa can deal with House Republicans' proposed cuts to Medicaid: decrease service or the number of people served.
May
2025
21
WATCH: House Republicans go radio silent on major tax bill
Republicans are ramming through a bill that will give more money to the rich and add trillions to the national deficit.
May
2025
19
WATCH: Ethanol corn vs. solar vs. wind
Ethanol corn vs. solar vs. wind 👀
