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Lauren White is news reporter at The Daily Iowan, covering the multicultural and diversity beat. She studies Journalism and Mass Communications and International Studies at the university.

Featured Statements

Jennifer Konfrst
stated on March 21, 2022 in a press release:

Only 2% of K-12 students would benefit from Iowa’s school voucher bill.

By Lauren White • April 7, 2022
Chuck Grassley
stated on February 5, 2022 in a tweet:

"During the first 3 months of FY2022 Customs& Border Protection recorded 518k encounters w illegal immigrants at S border That’s up 137% from same point in FY2021."

By Lauren White • March 3, 2022
Liz Mathis
stated on January 21, 2022 in a tweet:

“Ashley Hinson voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that made this money (for Iowa's locks and dams) possible. Once again she’s taking credit for work she didn’t do.”

By Lauren White • January 21, 2022
Dave Loebsack
stated on November 6, 2021 in a tweet:

Ashley Hinson’s and Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ no votes on the infrastructure bill are "denying rural Iowa broadband internet."

By Lauren White • November 22, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 in a speech:

“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”

By Lauren White • September 15, 2021

Checking claims in Iowa Gov. Reynolds’ sixth Condition of the State address

By Emily Delgado • January 12, 2023
State spending, school funding, abortion: fact-checking Iowa’s gubernatorial debate

By Natalie Dunlap • October 19, 2022
Fact-checking Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union speech

By Caleb McCullough • March 2, 2022
Iowa’s newest election laws, explained

By Lauren White • June 21, 2021