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| Federal Budget Analysis | |
| Iowa Impacts of Stimulus at a Glance | |
| A line by line look at the Iowa impacts of key provisions in the House and Senate economic recovery packages. Backgrounder (1-pg PDF). (Revised 2/20/09) | |
| Holding Taxpayers Harmless from Inflation: Fixing the Child Tax Credit | |
| Almost 100,000 Iowa children would benefit from House-passed improvements in the federal Child Tax Credit if adopted in legislation to keep expiring tax breaks in place. Backgrounder. (8/4/08) News release. (7/3/08) | |
| Bush Budget: Cutting and Cutting ... and Still Too Short | |
| President Bush's proposed 2009 budget fails to keep pace with Iowans' priorities for public services including child care, education, energy assistance and the environment, a new report shows. Read the press release. (2/20/08) | |
| Stimulus: Crossing the Three 'T's | |
| There has been much discussion in Iowa and all over the country about what would be the best way for Congress and the President to deal with an economic downturn. Some approaches have been shown to work better than others, and the current proposals offer a mix of ideas, some sound, some less so. Read the two-page backgrounder. (1/31/08) | |
| 10/25/07 Kids' Health Insurance Future in Balance |
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| House Considers New Bid on SCHIP Expansion | |
The U.S. House today is expected to vote on a new proposal to expand health insurance to millions more of American children. A bipartisan drive in Congress has attempted to expand the 10-year-old State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to reach more kids in low- to moderate-income working families who otherwise would not have insurance. SCHIP now reaches 37,000 Iowa children, a figure that would grow significantly under the legislation. Read the backgrounder on SCHIP facts and a guest opinion in the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Our press release sets the record straight on inaccurate claims about access for undocumented immigrants. Also read the one-page backgrounder (Sept. 25) about what's at stake for Iowa, and Sept. 19 press release. |
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| SCHIP catches kids crowded out of insurance. Read the two-page backgrounder. | |
| Shortfalls have become the norm for Iowa in SCHIP funding — Congress and the White House are deciding whether that will continue. Read the two-page backgrounder. | |
| Recent Developments: Sen. Grassley has not been happy with the President's remarks about SCHIP. Read the Des Moines Register story. Neither is Gov. Culver. Read the Governor's press release and letter to President Bush. | |
| 9/13/07 Stopping Erosion with the Farm Bill |
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| It's a problem for more than soil — Food Stamps, too | |
| 6/27/2007 | |
| Making Room for Kids' Health (pdf) | |
| Analysis Shows More Iowa Cuts in Proposed Bush Budget | |
| 2/21/2007 | |
| Adding up the Minuses | |
| Analysis Shows More Iowa Cuts in Proposed Bush Budget | |
| 2/20/2007 | |
| Iowa on 'SCHIP' Short List | |
| Current Shortfall for hawk-i -- Future Stability in Doubt | |
| 5/25/2006 | |
| Reality: Death and Taxes | |
| Facts for the Coming Debate on the Estate Tax | |
| 5/10/2006 | |
| Cheating on Taxes (pdf) | |
| Congress Finds Loopholes to Pass Tax Cuts, Increase Deficits | |
| 4/21/2006 | |
| Red Ink (pdf) | |
| A Deep Hole of Debt: Washington's Legacy to Young Iowans | |
| 4/5/2006 | |
| S.O.S.- SCHIP in Distress (pdf) | |
| Shorting hawk-i in the U.S. House Budget Committee's Plan | |
| 2/23/2006 | |
| Hidden Sacrifice (pdf) | |
| Analysis Discovers Big Cuts Ahead for Iowa | |
| 12/12/2005 | |
| On the Chopping Block (pdf) | |
| Outline of Iowa Beneficiaries and Threats to Federal Services | |
| 7/1/2005 | |
| For Richer, For Poorer (pdf) | |
| Budget Mismatch: Tax Cuts for Rich, Food Cuts for Vulnerable | |
| 6/17/2005 | |
| Food Stamps: A 7 percent Solution? (pdf) | |
| Applying President Bush's Standard to Congress' Food Stamp Cuts | |
| 5/6/2005 | |
| Unbalanced Bottom Line (pdf) | |
| A Quick Look at Implications for Iowa in the Federal Budget | |
| 5/5/2005 | |
| Beyond Medicaid Spin: Real Cuts to Real People (pdf) | |
| 3/30/2005 | |
| Unbalanced Approach Puts Iowa Services at Stake | |
| New Analysis Shows Iowa Impacts of Budget Proposals in Congress | |
| 2/22/2005 | |
| Warning to Iowa: Half-a-billion in Federal Cuts Proposed | |
| New report fills in gaps of Bush budget through 2010 | |
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