EARN in Iowa

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 […]

  Racial Justice

• 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, […]

  Climate Justice

• 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.

  Climate Justice

• 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 […]

  Climate Justice

• 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.

  Climate Justice

• 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 […]

  Climate Justice Water quality

• 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 […]

  Climate Justice Water quality

• 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.

  Climate Justice Water quality

• Water funding exposes shallow commitment

  • May 6, 2019
  • Common Good Iowa
  • Natalie Veldhouse

  Recent initiative fails to meet needs to improve Iowa water quality

  Climate Justice Water quality