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Losing income can make you poorer, and rising prices can make you poorer. Thanks to surging inflation since the pandemic, Iowans are poorer today in real terms than they were at the height of the Great Rece

The United States boasts the largest healthcare economy in the world. In 2022, health spending reached $4.5 trillion nationally, or over 17% of GDP.

Held from August 8-18, 2024, the Iowa State Fair welcomed 1,182,682 attendees this year, the most in its 170-year history.

Fentanyl-related overdose deaths cost Iowa $3.5 billion in 2023, up from approximately $1.3 billion in 2018.