Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the extent to which the job and benefits loss of the recession has pushed individuals onto Medicaid, the government program to help the poor access health care. One in six Americans was using the program by the end of 2009. Enrollment increased 8.2 percent that year, [...]
If Congress passes a bill once again cutting the food stamp program, the results will be less food, or less healthy food, according to Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger.
The income gap — the disparity in earnings between the wealthiest and poorest Americans — increased to the highest recorded level in 2009, according to the Census Bureau. The Associated Press reports on data from the 2009 American Community Survey released Tuesday.
One group hoping to storm Washington is a new, targeted umbrella organization for workers who have exhausted their unemployment benefits, the American 99ers Union.
Interesting nugget from Politico Thursday morning on Warren Buffett, legendary investor and longtime supporter of higher taxes for the very wealthy.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Mike Konczal and Arjun Jayadev have an astonishing paper (PDF) closely examining the unemployment numbers and weakness in the labor force. The key finding: Starting at the beginning of 2009 it is now more likely that someone who is unemployed will drop out of the labor force than find a job. [...]
More than 300 economists and policy experts released a letter Thursday warning that “the still-fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics of the kind being pushed by conservative politicians and by the Deficit Commission.” The group argues that President Barack Obama and Congress should press for legislation to create jobs, including infrastructure investment, [...]
Sometime this week, the Census Bureau will release figures on poverty in the United States in 2009. The Associated Press asked some demographers to sketch out the probable results — and they are grim. The demographers estimate the poverty rate will increase year-on-year from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent. That means one in seven [...]
Speaking on Face the Nation on Sunday, U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the House minority leader, said he would vote for the Obama administration’s proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans and to make the middle-class tax cuts permanent — if the only other choice was not reaching a deal [...]
The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to make permanent a research and development tax credit and $200 billion to let companies to deduct the full cost of the capital investment next year. Obama said [...]
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