Iowans who spend time working on small-town vitality in the state say small, rural communities will not survive urban flight without taking risks or community leaders willing to take
The Midwest is home to tens of thousands of immigrants — including refugees from countries like Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq.
It has been a challenge to
Curiosity has led me to contemplate events like the Civil War, the growing tensions in Europe and America before World War II, the lynching of black people by vigilantes in the South during the first half of the 20th Century, the internment of Japanese-Americans in the Western United States during t
If the law of supply and demand applied to the marketplace of ideas like it does to economics, political opinions wouldn’t be worth a plug nickel.They are everywhere, more so than ever since the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency and especially on Iowa’s college campuses.
African Americans are just 3.3 percent of Iowa's population, but they make up 26 percent of the state's prison population. What's behind criminal sentencing discrepancies, and what might be done about it?
The national focus has been on health care reform, but studies show that here in Iowa, African Americans and Latinos are more likely to need medical care, but less likely than Asian or white Iowans to actually receive it.
KCRG-TV9 news anchor Beth Malicki interviewed IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller about the IowaWatch collaboration with four newspapers, “Iowa’s Opportunity Gap,” for her Nov. 17, 2013, public
Home ownership is taken for granted as the default standard of living for many Iowans. But black and Latino homeownership rates have dropped since 1960, an analysis of census data shows. The reasons are explored in the conclusion of the series, "Iowa's Opportunity Gap," an IowaWatch collaboration wi
U.S. Census data show where black and Latino Iowans have fallen behind white Iowans when it comes to income, jobs, home ownership and high school and college degrees. IowaWatch obtained an analysis of 50 years of U.S. Census data from the Colorado-based public service journalism organization I-News,
