EARN in Iowa
-
Common Good Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa ·Common Good Iowa is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization built on a collective 50 years of experience of two respected Iowa organizations — the Child and Family Policy Center and Iowa Policy Project. Our team of policy advocates and researchers leverage reliable data, solid analysis, and collaborative relationships to craft people-centered policy solutions for our state’s most pressing issues.
Read More
Iowa Network publications
Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest
- October 10, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- Colin Gordon
A half-century removed from the high-tide of the civil rights movement, progress on racial equity has slowed or stalled on many fronts. Nowhere is this more starkly evident than in the […]
Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest
- October 10, 2019
- Colin Gordon
A number of factors—historical, economic, demographic, and political—have shaped patterns of racial disparity and race relations in the Midwest. Of the eight most segregated cities in 2010’s Census data, six […]
Alliant proposal: Equity, efficiency failure
- September 12, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- David Osterberg
The proposed Alliant rate increase is a sweeping denial of equitable treatment of customers and a rejection of environmental responsibility. Alliant Energy, called Interstate Power and Light (IPL) in Iowa, […]
Science change and climate change
- September 10, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- David Osterberg
Science is ever changing. It is now possible to show that some of the increase in rainfall from storms and consequent flooding has a human fingerprint.
Flooding impacts and climate change: An uncertain future for Iowa
- September 5, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- James Boulter
Iowa is becoming hotter and wetter because of climate change, putting a policy response in the hands of leaders who already are dealing with problems of more frequent flooding that […]
How home solar helps everyone
- August 14, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- Peter Fisher
Solar power not only saves on current generation of high-cost power; it reduces the need for future generating capacity. My own home system shows that.
Ignoring still-serious water threat
- August 9, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- David Osterberg
Last year, we issued a report on toxic algae and three weeks later the city of Greenfield lost its drinking water. Now we see that the Environmental Working Group has […]
Choosing the right stream: How Iowa can keep clean water priorities and funding equity together
- July 18, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- IPP staff
Iowa’s investment — or lack of investment — in water quality is a perennial issue driven by growing attention to pollution by the state’s most prominent industry, agriculture. Nine years […]
Improve water quality funding equitably
- July 5, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- Natalie Veldhouse
Expand existing state programs to improve waters and overall balance in Iowa tax system.
Water funding exposes shallow commitment
- May 6, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- Natalie Veldhouse
Recent initiative fails to meet needs to improve Iowa water quality