Common Good Iowa

ALERT! A bill moving through the Iowa House would deny the basics of good nutrition — including baby formula — to young children and pregnant and postpartum women who can’t document lawful immigrant status. Iowa would join just one other state — Idaho — in barring undocumented families from WIC.

Call or email your lawmaker today (visit https://www.commongoodiowa.org/get-involved/contact-your-legislator to learn how) and tell them that ALL babies, toddlers and new moms need healthy food. Ask them to strip the anti-immigrant WIC provisions from House Study Bill 696.

Tonight at 7:30 on Iowa Press, Mike Owen gives CGI’s perspective on Iowa’s severe budget challenges driven by rampant tax cuts. Surpluses have hidden the certain damage to education, health care and public safety, but those surpluses are quickly vanishing and so is the cover they’ve given the Governor and Legislature. Be aware as the 2026 legislative session is about to begin.

See the program on Iowa PBS at 7:30 Friday, or online now.

Iowa’s State Budget and Other Fiscal Issues Ben Murrey, director of policy and research for Common Sense Institute Iowa, and Mike Owen, senior associate at Common Good Iowa discuss the state budget and other fiscal issues.