What the United States does not have is a massive welfare state to match those of many European nations, to which so many U.S. progressives aspire. The overall level of U.S. taxation is comparatively ...

The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers more than doubled since the 1980s, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Inflation regularly topped 4% yearly until the mid-1990s, when freer trade and globalization began to intensify.

Scott County Sheriff's investigators have arrested two people, alleging they sexually abused a child from at least October ...

On Wednesday, the Bettendorf School Board approved a resolution to use approximately $42 million in tax revenue bonds toward a phased renovation project at Bettendorf Middle School.

A sculpture that was constructed by Muscatine Power and Water for the 50th running of RAGBRAI that came through Muscatine in 2023 is set to be relocated too the bike trail.

Republicans have proposed eliminating the state's property tax rollback system, which limits property tax increases, enacting a 2% cap on most revenue growth and shifting about $400 million in funding ...

"I don't know of a single musical instrument manufacturer that doesn't do something in China," said Alex Beamer, vice president of school music services at West Music, said.

Dana Dunbar raises the purple Gift of Hope flag in front of UnityPoint Health - Trinity Rock Island on Thursday, April 10. The flag raising ceremony was in honor of April being National Donate Life ...

The Davenport City Council on Wednesday upheld a city commission's decision to deny a homeowner's sliding glass doors, ...

The Masters ends the 9-month wait for golf's most anticipated major. Pedro Martinez says he has family members unaccounted ...

When Karl Gollan retired from professional softball in 2019, coaching was not his immediate plan, but he knew he wanted to ...