Study: Iowa needs more emergency shelters, guardrails for landlords

A Drake University study on homeless families in central Iowa finds a major need for more emergency family shelters. Researchers followed ten families living in shelters across the Des Moines metro last year as they navigated housing resources. Drake sociology professor Elizabeth Talbert, a lead researcher, says discrimination from landlords against low-income renters and “exorbitant” […]

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Iowa unemployment rate drops in May

Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says the May unemployment rate dropped down slightly from the 3.3% in April. “Went down