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posted on February 18, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Host Jeneane Beck talks with Associated Press reporter David Pitt about the difficulty of obtaining student loans and the proposed expansion of HAWK-I insurance program being debated in the Iowa legislature.
posted on February 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM
David Miles, president of the Iowa Board of Regents and board member of the Iowa College Student Aid Commission, and Jim Sumner, senior counselor, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for Grinnell College discuss the financial issues facing Iowa's college students.
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM
One Iowa community is developing a plan to help pay for student's tuition. It's called the Davenport Promise. Supporters of the plan believe it also offers the city a tool to reverse the out-migration of young families to the suburbs. Longer term it could provide Davenport with a better educated workforce.
posted on January 15, 2008 at 10:55 AM
posted on January 9, 2008 at 3:16 PM
As the session begins Monday, the legislature faces a fiscal year 2009 budget gap of more than $400 million. Governor Chet Culver has already asked lawmakers and state agencies to hold the line on spending, and he says he does not want to increases taxes. Nevertheless, there are many proposals asking for projects to be funded.
posted on December 11, 2007 at 11:17 AM
posted on December 11, 2007 at 11:17 AM
posted on December 5, 2007 at 3:35 PM
David Swensen, Iowa State University economist and Katherine Porter, associate professor of Law at the University of Iowa discuss the understand both the scope of the subprime mortgage crisis problem and to identify some of the regulatory and legal solutions.
posted on December 3, 2007 at 4:13 PM
As home foreclosure rates soar concerns about financial security are also increasing. The shockwaves of the mortgage crises coupled with a turbulent economy can be felt nationwide.
posted on November 14, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Just 23 years ago now, Iowa was facing the greatest crisis in its agricultural sector since the Great Depression. The farm debt crisis and the subprime mortgage foreclosure debacle of 2007 share several parallels. Professor Emeritus Neil Harl explains.
posted on October 19, 2007 at 3:31 PM
Democrat, Republican or Independent, nearly every poll of Americans reveals that the cost and availability of health care are big political issues. So too are other matters of family financial security, like pension viability, or mortgage regulations or even college tuition and loans. These issues are enduring and will persist through the 2008 elections.
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