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WEBWhy slashing income taxes is wrong for Iowa. Would you gut schools, health care and clean water to pay for income-tax cuts skewed to the rich? New plans would make bad tax policy even worse. 1 in 6 Iowa families with at least one full-time worker — about 18% — earn too little to meet even a bare-bones household budget on what they earn.
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WEBCommon Good Iowa is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization built on a collective 50 years of experience of two respected Iowa organizations — the Child and Family Policy Center and Iowa Policy Project. Our team of policy advocates and researchers leverage reliable data, solid analysis and collaborative relationships to craft people-centered
Iowa Families With Children are Stressed, Struggling to Meet Basic
WEBA troubling share of Iowa families with children are struggling to put food on the table, pay rent and stay insured during the current health and economic crisis, according to a new report, Kids, Families and COVID-19: Pandemic Pain Points and the Urgent Need to Respond, a 50-state analysis of how families are faring during the COVID-19 crisis …
Iowa HHS abandons critical adolescent mental health data …
WEBThe Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced last month it will no longer conduct a planned 2023 survey on adolescent health in Iowa. In the midst of a youth mental health crisis, HHS is abandoning its only source of nationally comparable data on the mental-health experiences of Iowa high school students — and of the health
Cost of Living in Iowa policy agenda Common Good Iowa
WEBChild and Dependent Care Credit to help families cover the costs of care. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-paid working adults not raising children in the home. Iowa. Boost the state Child and Dependent Care Credit, which now covers at most 8% of the average cost of full-time care.10. Double the state EITC from 15% to 30% of the federal
The Cost of Living in Iowa 2022
WEBof premiums, and plan benefits are also 60 percent of total health costs, then total health costs are 1.33 times premiums (again, actuarially on average).9 We then use this estimate of total health costs based on the bronze plan premium paid for that family type in each county, to estimate total out-of-pocket
Why tax cuts won’t change seniors’ decisions to move or stay
WEBAs a result, the net outmigration of the elderly from Iowa has averaged fewer than 400 people per year, only two-tenths of 1% of the senior population. Tax exemption of pension income to slow outmigration is clearly enormously expensive; the breaks come at a cost of $400 million a year, which amounts to $1 million for every net out-migrant
Data Common Good Iowa
WEBCommon Good Iowa builds on the Child and Family Policy Center and Iowa Policy Project's collective tradition of sound research and data. Data is integral to all our work, but you can dig into a few of our ongoing data initiatives listed to the left.
Cost of Living in Iowa Data and methodology Common Good Iowa
WEBThe eighth edition of The Cost of Living [FPS1] in Iowa was released in March, 2022. The report focuses on basic family budgets for 10 family types, and the living wage for each family type: the hourly wage that would provide after-tax income sufficient to meet basic needs for a full-time worker. The basic family budgets are based on the state
Time to tackle the real problems facing Iowa Blog Common …
WEBBeyond the basic funding issues, Iowa faces: — A continuing problem of access to quality child care for many working households. — Low economic security, beginning with a low minimum wage ($7.25) that legislators last voted to raise in 2007, and compounded by the $900 million-a-year problem of wage theft, and enhancing supports for Iowans
Kids Count: Iowa 6th in child well-being, but child care a challenge
WEBIowa ranks 6th among the states in child well-being, according to the 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report of recent household data developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzing how children and families are faring. Common Good Iowa is a member of the KIDS COUNT network. Despite a high rank relative to other states, Iowa’s
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