Nearly 25,000 fewer Iowans are enrolled in a federal food assistance program than before the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill became law. The wide-ranging law reduced federal funding by 20-percent for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Ryan Bobst, executive director of the North Liberty Community Pantry, says they’ve seen a 36-percent increase in […]

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






