Posted on January 26, 2024 at 9:40 PM by Mike Owen
(This blog is drawn from messages in a presentation by CGI Deputy Director Mike Owen for an Interfaith Alliance of...
Posted on January 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM by Anne Discher
Making sure low-income families can feed their kids is important whether school is in session or out. The evidence of...
Posted on July 18, 2023 at 11:58 AM by Sean Finn
By Sean Finn and Samantha Tamborski, Common Good Iowa Overwhelmingly, Iowans desire the freedom to determine if and when they...
Posted on April 3, 2023 at 8:27 PM by Mike Owen
SNAP and Medicaid not only boost low-income families with federal funds, but local and state economies as well. That's one...
Posted on March 7, 2023 at 9:02 AM by Anne Discher
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced last month it will no longer conduct a planned 2023 survey...
Posted on March 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Mike Owen
The road is closed, the bridge is out, and tax-cut-obsessed legislators are stepping on the gas. Already, Iowans started the...
Posted on August 10, 2022 at 5:00 PM by Kelli Soyer
In 1997, Congress established the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This critical piece of legislation provides health care coverage...
Posted on January 30, 2022 at 2:11 PM by Mike Owen
When you have a health and safety problem that is driven by people refusing to act, for whatever reasons —...
Posted on April 9, 2021 at 1:34 PM by Mary Nelle Trefz
Among several tax elements, Senate File 587, the tax bill passed by Iowa Senate on a party-line vote earlier this...
Posted on December 14, 2020 at 9:40 AM by Anne Discher
A troubling share of Iowa families with children are struggling to put food on the table, pay rent and stay...
