The leaders of Iowa’s largest food bank are incensed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to end a longstanding national hunger survey. Agency officials called the survey “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.” Annette Hacker, spokeswoman for the Food Bank of Iowa, says it’s unconscionable that USDA would eliminate this important gauge of a countrywide […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






