Independent Analysis and Information on Iowa Tax and Budget Issues

The highest-paid Iowans have to work 3 weeks per year to pay their state and local tax obligation (5.8% of income). The lowest-paid Iowans have to work twice as long to do the same (10.6% of income).
10/12/2004
Working Families Getting Squeezed in Iowa
One in Four Families is Low Income

One in four working families in Iowa is low-income, earning less than $36,784 for a family of four. A new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Rockefeller foundations spotlights this and other issues confronting working families. The report also finds that one in four jobs pays poverty-level wages and that low-income working Iowans pay a larger share of their income in taxes than the wealthiest Iowans. The report also makes several recommendations to improve the economic standing of working families.

Read the press release (pdf).