by homeinc | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog
HOME, Inc. was grateful to receive the Nonprofit Spotlight Award from Volunteer Iowa for the 2021 Iowa Nonprofit Awards. The Iowa Nonprofit Awards Summit recognizes the exceptional practices, achievements, and impact of nonprofit organizations and professionals in...
by homeinc | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted to help bolster the economy in an attempt to pull the country out of the Great Depression. However, this act excluded tip-based jobs and other work predominantly held by black workers, servers, shoe shiners, domestic...
by homeinc | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
Last month we began a blog campaign discussing the effects of racially motivated policy in Des Moines, today we will be focusing on our first policy in this series. Andrew Johnson’s Land Policies and Sharecropping: “After the Civil War, only 30,000 African...