Trump’s federal disaster declaration for Iowa made a week after destructive derecho
Lyle Muller, PolitiFact Iowa Editor
August 26, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Sarah Watson If your time is short: A derecho ripping through the Midwest United States Aug. 10 caused widespread damage, especially i...
Republican committee’s claim about the estate tax isn’t the whole story
Caleb McCullough, Summer Editor
July 23, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Rylee Wilson If your time is short: A new ad in Iowa claims the estate tax forces family farms and small businesses ...
Existing research shows lower rate of children getting, spreading COVID-19
Lyle Muller, PolitiFact Iowa Editor
July 16, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Caleb McCullough and Rylee Wilson If your time is short: Children do contract the coronavirus but current research shows it is happe...
Yes, the former U.S. vice president Johnson County is named after held slaves, married and fathered children with enslaved woman
Lyle Muller, PolitiFact Iowa Editor
July 8, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Caleb McCullough and Rylee Wilson What do you do when your county is named after a plantation owner from the 19th century who not only own...
Fewer than 75 percent of medical and dental students at UI are Iowa residents, but most are
Kelsey Harrell, Managing Digital Editor
June 16, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Caleb McCullough If your time is short: Iowa state representative Ann Meyer R-Fort Dodge said a bill requiring 75 ...
Iowa leads the nation in overall high-school graduation rates, lags behind in minority graduation rates
Katie Ann McCarver, News Editor
May 29, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your time is short: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says Iowa has the highest high-school graduation rate in t...
Theresa Greenfield’s no-corporate-PAC pledge needs some explanation
Caleb McCullough, Summer Editor
May 28, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your time is short: Theresa Greenfield says she has not taken money from corporate political action c...
Farm income was up going into planting season, but not as high as president says
Julia Shanahan, Politics Editor
May 22, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Marissa Payne If your time is short: President Trump claimed at a Jan. 30 Iowa campaign rally that net farm incom...
Did Sen. Ernst flip her position on health care funding?
Sarah Watson, Managing Editor
May 20, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Marissa Payne If your time is short: Democrats and Republicans were at loggerheads in April over whether to sandwich...
Young people are less at risk of dying from COVID-19, but not immune
Rylee Wilson, Politics Reporter
May 12, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Marissa Payne If your time is short: State Rep. Jeff Shipley wrote that young people have a higher risk of dying fro...
Iowa had a strong job market and low unemployment before coronavirus
Caleb McCullough, Assistant Politics Editor
April 15, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Marissa Payne In case you missed it: Unemployment in Iowa has seen historical lows since 2017, and in February Iowa r...
Trump beat Obama’s Iowa caucus turnout, but turnout record claim needs explaining
Rylee Wilson, Politics Reporter
March 24, 2020
PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Marissa Payne In case you missed it: Though Trump’s turnout numbers were higher than Obama’s, recording exact tur...