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Shoppers, business owners encouraged to submit suggestions for shopping list at RaisetheWageIowa.com A statewide coalition of small businesses, community leaders, labor and faith organizations will launch ‘Raise the Wage Wednesday’…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) will deliver the featured address at the 2014 Progress Iowa Holiday Party on Tuesday, December 16th at 6:00 pm at the Meadows Events and Conference Center…

Progress Iowa today released an online advertisement, ‘Scary’. The ad is a mock-infomercial selling Senator Joni Ernst Masks as the ‘scariest costume in Iowa’. The ad continues to describe the…

Governor Branstad has fallen 120,000 jobs short of his promise to create 200,000 jobs in Iowa, according to data released today by Iowa Workforce Development (IWD). IWD figures show that total nonfarm…

A lawsuit filed today by a former Iowa Republican Senate caucus employee alleges she was fired last year after she repeatedly complained of sexual harassment by her male colleagues against…

State Senators Joe Bolkcom, Rob Hogg, and Tom Courtney have accepted the challenge The Raise the Wage Iowa Coalition today will call on elected officials to live on the minimum…

Progress Iowa today will file a motion to intervene in the case of Randy Danniel, Iowa Logistics Development Company, Inc., vs. Iowa Economic Development Authority & State of Iowa. “We…

“Iowa values were nowhere to be found today” Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement in response to the remarks made at today’s Family Leadership Summit: “Iowa values were…