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Iowa officials project modest revenue growth over the next two years, but Democrats warn collections remain more than a billion dollars below current state spending.
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Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and three congressional districts outraised their Republican opponents, according to the latest federal campaign finance filings.
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President Donald Trump is expected to make two stops in Iowa ahead of Election Day to support U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn and other Republicans down the ballot.
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The John Deere Foundation's farm-to-plate initiative includes $17 million for Feeding America partner food banks and $1.5 million for The Farmlink Project, which rescues surplus produce from farms that would otherwise go to waste. Several food banks in Iowa plan to scale-up purchases from nearby farms with the additional funding.
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More children from mixed-status families are being separated from their parents through detention or deportation. Researchers and advocates believe the trauma of being split up predisposes a generation to health, academic and economic consequences.
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How the dissolution of the separation of church and state opens the door to unchecked power.
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Both candidates say they want Iowa students to succeed. But Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand disagree over who should qualify for education savings accounts and how the money should be monitored.
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Our sense of community is tied to economic opportunity, and according to CBS News, wealth inequality hit its widest gap in three decades. Not only that, discrimination and segregation have created more inequality for people of color.
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The candidates for Iowa governor clashed over the political issues Tuesday night while sparring over where Republican Zach Lahn lives and how Democrat Rob Sand funds his campaign.
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UpLift’s Central Iowa Emergency Rental Assistance study is looking at how long emergency rental assistance should be provided to families in a crisis for them to regain economic stability.
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Audiences across the political spectrum used to consume the same basic set of facts from the major news networks. Today, political slants in coverage and individualized algorithms have Americans debating completely different realities.
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Democrat Lindsay James and Republican Joe Mitchell debated in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. The candidates are competing to represent northeast Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.