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The Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa has announced distribution of 25 grants totaling $435,000 to organizations serving Black Hawk County.

Where’s the modern-day Catholic labor priest?

Review of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU edited by Louis Aguiar and Joseph McCartin (University of Illinois Press, 2023)

Americans are now struggling to make ends meet more than at any time for decades, figures show. Economist and professor Mark Frost said the Biden administration was either incompetent or evil in its management of the economy.

Democratic side. what do you think? >> all right. i think look -- the issues that i stand for and you compare them to, for example, the issues that my father robert kennedy my ology the john f. kennedy stood for you can do down the line and check every one of them. im a traditional kennedy democrat traditional liberal. antiwar skeptical of the military complex, i want the financial, economic policies to be -- to respond to the working poor, the working class in this country rather than to the ne...

Cheryl Berryann knew from an early age that she was unplanned and unwanted.

Oak City Cares said they are seeing a nearly 97% increase in the number of people they are serving this year compared to last year.

Shortages of state and city personnel, especially those who must work on site, are so dire that unions are helping to get people in the door.

340,000 UPS employees are gearing up for a strike.

Lawyers who represent tenants facing eviction in housing court will likely see new funding in the tens of millions in the coming year—well short of the roughly $350 million increase they’ve said is needed for the Right to Counsel program to live up to its name.