A job fair specifically for people who were formerly serving time in jail or prison is happening this week in central Iowa. The Reform Iowa Job Fair will be from 1-7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. It is the first such job fair the...
Republicans angry the party they voted for was giving companies tax credits to take farmland to build carbon capture pipelines let their representative know it at her first town hall of the year. Fewer than 20 Iowans made it to a Monday morning town hall in Grundy...
A national nonprofit group that promotes taking away earned unemployment benefits has awarded Iowa its top prize for adding more restrictions for folks on unemployment. The American Institute for Full Employment (AIFE), based in Oregon, named Iowa Workforce...
Opponents of a bill that could expand more types of work to younger Iowans had "real problems" with the bill, including a provision exempting nearly all liability from businesses who employ children in work-based learning programs. The bill, Senate File 167, was...
The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is the state's whitest public university and the school's 50-year-old Black Student Union hopes to use Black History Month as a jumping-off point for several events that "open up doors for the strong and needed conversations."...
Republicans are trying for a third year in a row to pass legislation that would limit how much the victims of crashes involving trucks from a trucking company could receive in financial compensation. The bill would limit non-economic damages (injuries) to $1...
A new bill in the Iowa Legislature would allow young teenagers to work in more hazardous conditions, while exempting businesses from liability for work-based learning programs if those teenagers get hurt. 14-year-olds could be assigned a wider array of potentially...
The president of the Iowa Senate commented on an Iowa House bill that would restrict Iowans on public assistance, saying she believed it was necessary because "fraud and abuse exists in our system"—though Iowa's SNAP fraud amounts to just 0.001%. Sen. Amy Sinclair...
Gov. Kim Reynolds wants to reduce the number of state agencies and cut staff, but those who know and use the programs worry Iowans will suffer. Reynolds proposed a bill in the Iowa Legislature to slash Iowa's 37 cabinet-level positions to just 16—a 56% decrease—...
The vast majority of speakers at an Iowa House subcommittee hearing were against several sections of a new bill that would drastically restrict and burden low-income Iowans using food assistance and Medicaid. A provision to prevent the purchase of fresh meat had...
