Independent Analysis and Information on Iowa Tax and Budget Issues

Food security improved for low-income Americans following improvements in SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) in the Recovery Act.
See report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Our Vanishing Budgets
Iowa's Response to the Fiscal Crisis in the States

Our Vanishing Budgets is a compilation of the executive summaries of our five recent reports on Iowa's response to the 2001-2005 fiscal crisis.

Our Vanishing Budgets includes executive summaries of these reports:

A Chronic Budget Crisis: Can Iowa Keeps its Promises?
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Local Government
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Human Services
Iowa's State Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Education
The State Fiscal Crisis: Comparing Responses of Iowa and Other States

A joint effort of the Iowa Policy Project and the Child & Family Policy Center (logos).