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Guaranteed income programs like one pilot currently running in central Iowa would be banned under a bill introduced in the 2024 legislative session. Des Moines' UpLift, other local guaranteed ...
The Iowa House has passed legislation banning local governments from adopting or enforcing guaranteed income programs, targeting a Polk County-based pilot initiative that provides 110 people with ...
Universal basic income pilots are smaller-scale preliminary experiments which are carried out on selected members of the relevant population to assess the feasibility, costs and effects of the full-scale implementation of universal basic income (UBI), or the related concept of negative income tax (NIT), including partial universal basic income and similar programs.
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) provides supplementary United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food packages to the low-income elderly of at least 60 years of age. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the fifteen federally-funded nutrition assistance programs of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) , a USDA agency. [ 3 ]
The Iowa Board of Social Welfare was founded in 1937 by the Iowa General Assembly. In 1967, it was merged with the Iowa Board of Control and Iowa Board of Parole to form the Iowa Department of Social Services. It was renamed the Iowa Department of Human Services in 1987. [1]
Current Medicaid eligibility in Iowa for women postpartum allows for a maximum family income of 375% of the federal poverty level (about $117,000 for a family of four).
The survey's mission is to provide a nationally representative sample for evaluating: 1. annual and sub-annual income dynamics, 2. movement into and out of government transfer or assistance programs, and 3. effects of our changing family and social situations for individuals and households.
A bill being considered by the Iowa legislature and strongly backed by Republican lawmakers would restrict food choices for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries, and anti-hunger...