by Michael McKinley | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Health, I Speak, Inequality
I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need Medicare For All, when I know that we do. These candidates parrot lines they’re fed by big pharma, big insurers and big...
by Tom Conway | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Trade
Photo credit: White House / Shealah Craighead / cc Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the offshoring of...
by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Tobita Chow | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Election, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Trade
Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Tony Webster / flickr / cc Earlier this month, still another one-day-wonder of a Twitter storm surfaced and quickly sank in Donald Trump’s America. On January 9, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society that show —...
by David Goodner | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured, Immigration
Antonio Diego, 24, a Brazilian student in Sioux City on a J1 visa. Photo courtesy of Sioux City Journal Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa...
