Investigate Midwest (Page 121)

Institute for Nonprofit News names IowaWatch’s Suzanne Behnke to national Emerging Leaders Council

Suzanne Behnke, executive director of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism and its news outlet, IowaWatch, has been named to the Institute for Nonprofit News Emerging Leaders Council. INN

By IowaWatch

/ 26 May 2020

Institute for Nonprofit News names IowaWatch’s Suzanne Behnke to national Emerging Leaders Council

Evans: The benefit that comes from perspective

The shackles could not hold us. The Evanses cast them aside last week and traveled to Bloomfield and Cedar Rapids to visit our parents. There are few social distancing concerns

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 26 May 2020

Evans: The benefit that comes from perspective

Cheap chicken, beef came at a cost. How American meat plants bred coronavirus hot spots.

The meatpacking industry has evolved into a marvel of modern efficiency, producing 105 billion pounds annually of poultry, pork, beef and lamb destined for dinner tables across America and the world. That’s nearly double what it produced three decades ago. But its evolution came at a cost. The same

By Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest, Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY, Veronica Martinez Jacobo, USA TODAY and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY

/ 22 May 2020

Cheap chicken, beef came at a cost. How American meat plants bred coronavirus hot spots.

Rantoul Foods resumes hiring; receives donation of face shields

Rantoul Foods, which has had at least 87 workers stricken with Covid-19 at its meat processing plant, started hiring again.

By Pam Dempsey, Investigate Midwest

/ 20 May 2020

Rantoul Foods resumes hiring; receives donation of face shields

Rural residents face diminishing access to quality nursing homes

Rural nursing homes are buffeted with a number of issues that often lead to understaffing and low quality of care. In addition, some nursing homes in rural areas are closing because of financial challenges.

By Karen Liu, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 20 May 2020

Rural residents face diminishing access to quality nursing homes

Tell us about your mental health struggles amid COVID-19, other disasters

We're digging into the stressful toll of wildfires, hurricanes and floods — and now COVID-19 on top of them. We need your help. Every year, weather-related disasters

By Suzanne Behnke, IowaWatch

/ 20 May 2020

Tell us about your mental health struggles amid COVID-19, other disasters

Evans: No hugs and casseroles make this more difficult

We always can use more humor. Even during a pandemic. At least that was my justification for a “thought” I shared with the world on social media last week. A

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 20 May 2020

Evans: No hugs and casseroles make this more difficult

Food supply issues

Back in March, the coronavirus started triggering infection hotspots in and around meatpacking plants, sickening and killing workers. As local public health authorities pushed giant meat conglomerates to close infected facilities, industry executives warned that doing so was “pushing our country per

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 19 May 2020

Health and human provider relief fund allocations to Iowa hospitals, as of May 13, 2020

Relief payments distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration have gone to the following Iowa hospitals. The funds come

By IowaWatch database of U.S. HHS data compiled by Lyle Muller

/ 19 May 2020

More than $500M in federal aid heading to Iowa hospitals would cover only half their COVID-19 losses

Iowa hospitals received $190.3 million in CARES Act relief fund payments in April and were expecting as much as $360 million more in a second round of federal relief aid, interviews and documents shared with IowaWatch show. Part of a special national collaboration, "Slammed: Rural Health Care and CO

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 19 May 2020

More than $500M in federal aid heading to Iowa hospitals would cover only half their COVID-19 losses

FDA clears Iowa sanitizer maker of making false claims about COVID-19

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an Iowa hand sanitizer company of making misleading claims about its product’s ability to “mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19.” Prefense LLC, of Muscatine, faced an April 23 FDA complaint that made the company the nation’s first manufac

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 18 May 2020

FDA clears Iowa sanitizer maker of making false claims about COVID-19

Opinion: Will feds rise to the long-term challenges of COVID-19?

It’s really no wonder that the latest Pew Research Survey said that just 17 % of Americans currently trust government to do the right thing all or most of the time. In all fairness it just isn’t the current POTUS. Trust in the federal government has been declining for years in the wake of a boatload

By Dave Dickey, Columnist

/ 18 May 2020