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Ingredients of Iowa's recipe for budget disaster

Posted on January 26, 2024 at 9:40 PM by Mike Owen

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(This blog is drawn from messages in a presentation by CGI Deputy Director Mike Owen for an Interfaith Alliance of...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Clean air & water, Family support & well-being, Health, Higher education, PK-12 schools, Public Safety

Meet needs -- not whims of rich and powerful

Posted on November 7, 2023 at 3:00 PM by Anne Discher

child and parent

This is a pivotal time. We’re less than two weeks away from a potential government shutdown. We averted the last...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Family support & well-being

Tagged As: ARPA, Child Care, Congress, shutdown, WIC

Warning: Cliff ahead in Iowa

Posted on October 13, 2023 at 12:47 PM by Mike Owen

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Iowa’s Revenue Estimating Conference confirmed Thursday what we’ve known for many months: Tax cuts reduce state revenue. And that means...

Categories: Budget & taxes

Tagged As: Budget cuts, State budget, State taxes

Federal shutdown will cause avoidable uncertainty and hardship

Posted on September 28, 2023 at 9:35 AM by Anne Discher

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We are likely just hours away from a federal government shutdown that will harm families, businesses and the nation’s economy.[1]...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Federal policy

Tagged As: child care, Federal budget, Federal taxes, Medicaid, Nutrition, shutdown

A quarter-century of cutting taxes for the wealthy has not made life better for most Iowans

Posted on August 31, 2023 at 5:42 PM by Anne Discher

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This piece is adapted from remarks Common Good Iowa executive director Anne Discher made to the Iowa AFL-CIO convention in Altoona on...

Categories: Budget & taxes

Cycling the high road of public investments

Posted on July 26, 2023 at 5:40 PM by Mike Owen

map of federally funded projects in Iowa

Riders on RAGBRAI, the annual statewide bicycle ride across Iowa sponsored by The Des Moines Register, are peddling on a...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Child care, Covid-19, Federal policy, Jobs & labor

Tagged As: American Rescue Plan Act, child care, COVID-19, Economic development, Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act, Iowa Economy, Iowa Farmers Union, Progress Iowa

Danger ahead: Gutting education, health and safety with tax cuts

Posted on March 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Mike Owen

Road Closed warning sign photo

The road is closed, the bridge is out, and tax-cut-obsessed legislators are stepping on the gas.  Already, Iowans started the...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Child care, Clean air & water, Early childhood, Health, Higher education, PK-12 schools, Public Safety

Tax-Cut Overreach: A thumb on the scale

Posted on March 22, 2022 at 4:06 PM by Mike Owen

View from south of the State Capitol (Senate side)

Under Senate Study Bill 3064, one “no” vote is worth two “yes” votes. Try explaining that in Social Studies class....

Categories: Budget & taxes

Opportunity through public policy: Different approaches in Washington and Des Moines

Posted on April 30, 2021 at 11:12 AM by Mike Owen

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President Biden’s challenge to Congress to rejuvenate the nation came as a welcome contrast to what Iowans are seeing from...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Child care, Clean energy & climate, Covid-19, Family support & well-being

Mental health funding: Fool me once …

Posted on April 9, 2021 at 1:34 PM by Mary Nelle Trefz

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Among several tax elements, Senate File 587, the tax bill passed by Iowa Senate on a party-line vote earlier this...

Categories: Budget & taxes, Health

Tagged As: iowa legislature, Mental health, Property tax, State taxes

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