Iowa — hog-happy Iowa — wants to prevent people on federal food assistance from buying meat, but there is another important element no one is talking about, Dave Dickey writes in his latest column.
Recognizing farmworkers endure unsafe housing and wage theft, the government created a program 50 years ago to address the inequities. Internal documents show a failing system.
When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story.
A new study released by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association details financial losses of more than $10 billion a year if the state's ethanol plants do not have a means to sequester carbon and reap the rewards from new federal tax credits.
