It’s a familiar refrain in the office each month when we put together our analysis of Iowa’s latest job numbers: There sure are a lot of numbers! That’s an understandable reaction. Too many numbers can obscure the message, something we consider in our analysis of public policy issues at the Iowa Policy Project. So, we [...]
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Numbers, numbers, numbers … People!
September 18, 2009Federal stimulus impacts on Iowa
February 20, 2009Here is a look at some of the impacts of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act in Iowa: FMAP (Medicaid percentage increase) FY2009-11 — $550.0 million State Fiscal Stabilization (Flexible block grant) — $ 86.0 million Education/ Child Care: State Fiscal Stabilization fund (education) FY2009-10 — $386.4 million Title 1 (supplemental support) — $65.3 million [...]
