This week's Iowa Worker's Almanac news briefs: Iowa ranks 43rd for teachers: A new WalletHub ranking puts Iowa 43rd of the 50 states and DC for teachers, taking into account opportunity, competition, academic, and work environment. “Iowa schools used to be our...
The Iowa job market is abysmal right now, and one recent University of Iowa graduate is frustrated with how "rough" it is.
Union rallies for Fort Madison prison workers: Prison health care workers unionized with AFSCME Council 61 held a rally Wednesday against a proposal from the state that would outsource prison health care across Iowa. “Whenever we see privatization, it’s not about...
Amie here. Harvest time is upon us, and Iowa farmers are supposed to have the third-largest harvest on record. Yet it all amounts to a hill of beans (literally) if nobody's buying them. Iowa soybean farmers—and those in the wider ag industry—are hurting in a big...
Iowa is fourth in the nation for rates of alcohol-related cancers, and highest in the Midwest.
Miller-Meeks said she liked clean energy tax credits, but her vote for the Big Beautiful Bill shows she didn't care, writes Stefanie Warnick, a union construction worker with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 43. "Our state needs...
Americans are starting to sour on capitalism. That's according to the latest Gallup survey, which found the number of US adults who say they support capitalism—"an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods," per...
Iowa's water quality is making national news. Obviously not in a good way.
From the Iowa Worker's Almanac: News you can use for the week of Sept. 4, 2025:
Labor unions are just starting to endorse candidates for 2026. It's still very early for this, but here are a few I've seen so far:
