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).
8/30/2005
Stagnant Signs for Iowa Household Budgets
New Census Data Illustrates Concerns for Iowa Families

Key factors of Iowans’ financial security have stagnated and have not recovered to pre-2000 levels, according to a review of new Census information about household income, poverty and health insurance coverage. Iowans’ incomes are lower and poverty is higher relative to the late 1990s at the same time that families are facing new pressures in health-care costs and energy prices. The number of uninsured Iowans stayed at 303,000 Iowans over the past three years. However, that is an increase of 29 percent since 1999.

Read the press release and fact sheet on health insurance (pdfs).