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...
After more than eight months on strike, Burlington CNHi workers will be heading back to work with a new contract. United Auto Workers (UAW) members who work at the CNHi plant in Burlington, as well as another 600-some who work at one in Racine, Wisconsin, jointly...
Through days topping 90 degrees with no shade and days at 11 degrees below zero coupled with dangerous wind chills, unionized workers in Cedar Rapids held the line for nearly six months despite the pressures of being out of work. On Sunday, after 175 days on the...
Workers who have been on strike since last summer at an ingredient and starch manufacturer in Cedar Rapids will be voting on a potential contract this weekend. The contract's details were slowly hammered out since around 116 workers at Ingredion—organized with the...
Iowa Senate Democrats filed a bill decriminalizing personal amounts of marijuana and allowing cities to OK retail shops selling it, even though majority Republicans are unlikely to pass this one to the left. As national Democrats slowly try to grind away at the...
Faculty at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) say their pay hasn't kept up with inflation for years, and are asking the Iowa Board of Regents for nearly 10% raises to make up for it. United Faculty UNI, which represents around 500 professors, associate...
