This week's working news you can use: Job Corps cuts hurt Iowa's employment: Despite its success, Ottumwa Job Corps—which offers free education and vocational training for at-risk youth ages 16 to 24—is among the 99 programs the Trump Administration is shutting...
A new Iowa law removing the civil rights of transgender Iowans goes into effect today. Hear from some of the Iowans targeted by the bill. Iowa made history today as the first state to actively remove a previously protected class from its civil rights law, targeting...
Where's the love for social safety nets?
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US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks says the US Senate GOP bill and its massive cuts to Medicaid are too much. But will that change her willingness to vote for it?
“Survival mode.”
That’s what Rep. Heather Matson says Iowa’s public school districts are operating in these days.
And in just a couple of short months, there will be another issue added to the growing list of Republican moves that are hurting the state's more than 300 public school districts.
Besides being underfunded, not having teacher candidates to hire, and a voucher system that diverts public funds from public schools to private, the new trouble will be a requirement for public schools to let private school students play in their sports programs.
Matson says she worries about “the possible fiscal and logistical implications.”
Tony Lukken needs daily care. But Iowa Medicaid recently dropped his exemption that gave him access to an in-home nurse five-days a week. His mother Lori is now tasked with piecing together her son's care.
Find out more on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions: https://cornholechampions.substack.com/p/job-corps-ottumwa-iowa-trump-cuts
Iowa is in a maternal health crisis.
With one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the country since the overturning of Roe v. Wade (three years ago this week), clinics and hospitals are having a hard time recruiting OB-GYNs.
Iowa’s year-old statewide abortion ban prohibits most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they’re pregnant.
Dr. Karla Solheim reflects on Iowa’s maternal health care scene since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned the decades-long protections for women that were secured from Roe v. Wade.
The Trump administration's massive cuts to federal programs has reached Ottumwa's Job Corps site, taking away jobs and an economic safety net from one of Iowa's poorest counties.
Learn more on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzECAsvY2wI
If you want the Iowa legislature to get something done, you just have to have enough money to give.
Try and take it (we mean the podcast).
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