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Crunching those year-end Iowa jobs numbers
Christine Ralston Iowa’s latest jobs picture is a bit mixed up. Iowa’s unemployment rate was at 6.6 percent in December, remaining relatively stable through the second half of 2009. But the job numbers...
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Lessons from Oregon
Christine Ralston Iowa could learn something from Oregon voters about taking a balanced approach to budget challenges. In a victory for fiscal prudence, Oregon voters recently passed two initiatives —...
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Missing an opportunity for tax-credit reform?
Christine Ralston Iowa is missing an opportunity to implement strong transparency measures and to recapture revenue that it has been allowing to slip away for years. Legislation passed by the Senate...
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Jobs in Iowa: Partly Sunny with Scattered Showers
Christine Ralston I cannot wait for the day when The Iowa Policy Project’s monthly JobWatch headline reads unequivocally, “Nonfarm Jobs Increase for 12th Consecutive Month and Unemployment Remains...
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