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).

2/22/2005
Warning to Iowa: Half-a-billion in Federal Cuts Proposed
New report fills in gaps of Bush budget through 2010

A new report reveals sweeping cuts in services for Iowa in the budget proposed by President Bush.  Washington budget watchdog group, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), reports that Iowans would see cuts in federal grants in aid of more than $577 million from 2006 through 2010, including $178 million in 2010 alone. Among the cuts projected for Iowa: $108.7 million in elementary and secondary education, $5.1 million in nutrition programs for women, infants and children, and $57.6 million in vocational and adult education.

Read the press release (pdf).