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Iowa's Free Enterprise Report: 2025 Edition

The Free Enterprise Report is a marquis report that provides an objective, non-partisan, fact-based analysis of the Iowa economic landscape and the state’s most pressing issues. The study is a year long undertaking and includes the CSI Economic Performance Index as well as a Free Enterprise Competitiveness Index across eight different policy areas.

Both indices provide an opportunity to look backwards and better understand where Iowa has been and what direction we are moving. We can better understand how we are performing relative to other states and we can equip policy makers, civic and business leaders with the best understanding of how our state is performing, where we are winning, where we are losing and how free enterprise principles can get us back on track.

 

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Taxes & Fees
Keeping Local Tax Dollars Local

Iowa’s local governments held $2.5 billion in public funds with ISJIT and IPAIT

January 22, 2026 Ben MurreyThomas Young
Jobs & Our Economy
Inflation in the Midwest - December 2025

Annual inflation in the Midwest was 2.7% for 2025.

January 13, 2026 Andrzej Wieciorkowski
Jobs & Our Economy
Iowa Jobs and Labor Force Update - November 2025

In November, Iowa gained 4,600 jobs.

January 07, 2026 Andrzej Wieciorkowski
Jobs & Our Economy
Inflation in the Midwest - November 2025

In November, year-over-year inflation in the Midwest fell to 3.0%

December 18, 2025 Andrzej Wieciorkowski