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Stephen Gruber-Miller/IowaWatch and West Liberty Index and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger
Why you can trust Investigate Midwest
Two of every five black Iowans didn’t always live in poverty. In the 1970 and 1980 censuses, for example, their poverty rate was 28 percent. It jumped to 37 percent in 1990, and was at 32 percent at the turn of this century in 2000. But the 2010 census showed 43 percent of black Iowans […]
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Fund for Investigative Journalism, Gary Marx Journalism Fund, Arnold Ventures, Kirkpatrick Foundation, Lumpkin Family Foundation, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Builders Initiative
