Expanding Iowa's Earned Income Tax Credit could lift more than 3,000 families out of poverty while improving tax fairness and lessening demands on public services.
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Increasing health-coverage access by expanding Medicaid eligibility can expand workers’ options for employment while improving income and long-term economic opportunity for low-income families.
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Iowa could boost its economy and budget, help low-income workers and better prepare for the future if the state were to invest more in workforce education.
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Expanding child care assistance would assure both quality care and returns to Iowa. The state should strengthen regulations and enforcement.
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The federal stimulus legislation — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — includes help for an expansion of services, at no cost for a year, if the state were to accept that help and use it as intended.
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