"At the end of the day, the promise to America to ensure that we have a 100% American workforce stands, but we must be ...

President Donald Trump's new budget law, just signed last week, makes changes to both Medicaid and SNAP coverages specifically who can get the benefits.Food pan ...

Activists gathered outside the lawmakers' Davenport offices to condemn their votes for President Trump's spending and tax cut ...

Now that Congress has sent the “big, beautiful bill” to the president’s desk, our focus needs to turn to how we handle the aftermath of its implementation.

It comes as rural hospitals – defined as any hospital outside a metro – are already struggling. Twenty hospitals in Iowa were ...

Medicaid covers the costs of about $40,000 per round, she says. Gibson-Green works up to 20 hours per month as a community coordinator. Her health prevents her from doing more. “The treatment has side ...

The slate of proposed cuts and changes to Medicaid in the bill could harm older adults, AARP argues. A new requirement that able-bodied adults under age 65 must work to remain Medicaid eligible could ...

That includes 17% of rural Iowa working-age families and 65,000 adults covered by Medicaid expansion, Discher said, which Iowa passed in 2013.

Most SNAP and Medicaid recipients who can work already do, such as seasonal workers, caregivers, and parents. They’re lawfully following these programs’ requirements.

Cuts to Medicaid moving through Congress would shake up health care in the scenic San Luis Valley — with negative downstream effects on local jobs, businesses and education.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, listens to testimony during a Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ...