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‘We Crapped in Our Nest’ spills the truth about Iowa’s pollution

October 3, 2025

Plus: National Voter Education Week kicks off next week Share with a friend Amie here. We’re big on educating voters around these parts, and since next week is National Voter Education Week, we thought we’d get an early start and remind you to make sure you’re registered. While we won’t be casting ballots for statewide…

‘We Crapped in Our Nest’ spills the truth about Iowa’s pollution

Coralville Costco Would Be 1st in Midwest to Unionize

March 12, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2025. Amie here. I may be changing around my newsletters a bit, but don’t worry: The Iowa Worker’s Almanac isn’t going anywhere. First of all, news about what folks are going through on the job is kind of the main thing we all worry about:…

Coralville Costco Would Be 1st in Midwest to Unionize

Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news briefs, Aug. 29

August 29, 2025

Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news briefs, Aug. 29

From the Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news for the working class, Aug. 14, 2025

August 18, 2025

Fox guarding the henhouse: A former Tyson executive now oversees the safety of the US meat supply. (Sentient Media) Designed to discriminate: By gutting the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Trump is making it easier for federal contractors to discriminate—all underwritten by your tax dollars. (EPI) Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Nepalese workers can stay, for now, after a judge halted Trump’s order to end Temporary Protective…

From the Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news for the working class, Aug. 14, 2025

Money for union-busters, but can’t pay the workers?

May 21, 2026

Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. If break time’s over, here’s the tl;dr: This Iowa hospital chain spent $2.14 million on union-busting consultants in 2025; Upcoming Iowa layoffs and Iowa labor news; Local officials didn’t even know this hospital was…

Money for union-busters, but can’t pay the workers?

1st Starbucks in Des Moines voting on a union

July 24, 2025

News about and for the working class Share with a friend It’s Thursday, July 24, 2025. As part of our Cancer in Iowa series, Zachary and I are looking for Iowans who have concerns that the chemicals, processes, or other things in your workplace may be cancer-causing—or have already caused cancer in them or…

1st Starbucks in Des Moines voting on a union

WATCH: 🌽 Iowa lost $17.6 BILLION to brain drain (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #34

August 6, 2025

Iowa is hemorrhaging talent at an alarming rate, and the economic impact is staggering. A new report reveals that 34% more college graduates leave Iowa than stay, with the 2023 cohort alone representing a devastating $17.6 billion loss in potential income for the state. On this episode of Cornhole Champions, Zachary Oren Smith, Amie Rivers,…

WATCH: 🌽 Iowa lost $17.6 BILLION to brain drain (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #34

Rallies, protests, town halls, and Trump

June 30, 2025

Plus: A photo of a cute baby Share with a friend It’s Monday, June 30, 2025. Amie here. If you’ll indulge me (you have no choice), my brother and his wife are publicly sharing baby photos now, so here’s lil’ Nico! Tiny baby hands! OK, back to our regularly scheduled newsletter! Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor,…

Rallies, protests, town halls, and Trump

651 laid off at Whirlpool in Amana

April 1, 2025

On Tuesday, news broke that 651 Iowans are soon to be laid off by June 1 from Whirlpool in Amana. That’s about a third of its workforce.

How Trump’s immigration raids could hurt Iowa

January 22, 2025

It’s likely that Iowa, where agriculture is the largest part of our economy, where immigration accounts for the vast majority of the state’s growth, and where voters once again voted for Trump, could see these effects in a pronounced way.

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