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A bill passed by the Iowa Legislature would prohibit cities and counties from establishing guaranteed income programs aimed at reducing the impact of poverty.

A bill passed in the Iowa House would ban guaranteed income programs such as the UpLift pilot program currently underway in three central Iowa counties.

Miranda Rights include a right to an attorney, but that right doesn't mean that an attorney will be free in states like Iowa. A Marshall Project investigation found Iowa imposes some of the highest fees in the nation.

Yield Giving has donated more than $14 billion to more than 1,600 entities since 2019, including the Siouxland Community Health Center.

A pilot program that will study the effect of basic income on reducing poverty will make its first payments next month to a group of central Iowa residents.

West Liberty has seen three resignations in as many months, and now the city's ARPA funded direct assistance program is facing pushback.

The disposable income for people in rural communities decreased by 38 percent from the year prior. That means less financial security for small town residents.

A year ago this month, a freak storm comparable to a Category 4 hurricane carved a path of destruction across Iowa, damaging scores of homes. One year later, some residents are still discovering storm damage from the Aug. 10 derecho, are fighting for insurance payments and struggling to rebuild.

Advocates are continuing to call on officials in Johnson County to allocate federal pandemic relief money to undocumented immigrants and low wage workers. Activists with the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition marched in the streets of Iowa City Wednesday as they headed to a public hearing with city staff on the American Rescue Plan Act.

On August 10, 2020, a derecho swept across the state tearing up trees, flattening crops, knocking out powerlines and cell phone towers and damaging homes and buildings. Charity Nebbe and her guests talk about the scars of this storm that are still visible and recovery efforts that continue to this day.