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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).

10/19/2005
IowaCare: Need for Caution

A new program brokered by Iowa leaders to save health-care services may actually create problems for the low-income Iowans it seeks to serve, Iowa Fiscal Partnership analysts conclude in a new report. Known as IowaCare, the program received a waiver from Medicaid rules to prevent a loss of up to $65 million in funds that had been questioned by the federal government. While stopping that loss of funds, IowaCare does not necessarily deliver on its promise of expanding access to health care. Read the report and press release. Read the press release. Read the full report.