A central Iowa guaranteed income program working with 110 low-income households would be forced to end early under a bill passed in the Iowa House. Guaranteed income programs would be banned in the state of Iowa under a bill passed Monday by House Republicans. If it becomes law, it would end a pilot project underway in central Iowa.
Programs such as UpLift, which operates in Dallas, Warren and Polk counties, are designed to ease the effects of poverty by providing monthly cash stipends with no expectations or requirements for how the money is spent.
Democrats said any program that aims to […]
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