United Ways of Iowa is honored to announce we have been awarded Iowa's largest AmeriCorps grant to date - $1.6 Million for Iowa Reading Corps. The program places reading tutors in classrooms across the state to work with K-3 students to achieve reading proficiency by replicating the successful,...
The ALICE Report for Iowa details the 25% of Iowa households who work, earn and pay taxes, but cannot meet a basic needs budget in the county in which they live. Combined with the 12% of Iowans who live below the Federal Poverty Level, the report shows 37% of Iowa households - over 450,000 -...
Posted at: 2:48 pm Tuesday, June 21, 2016Posted By: dcook
Once upon a time is the opening line of so many of our favorite childhood books. But there is a real story told every day in Iowa that is not a fairytale. It is the story of ALICE. She is working - often at more than one job, has income above the Federal Poverty Level and, yet, still cannot make ends meet each month.
ALICE is an acronym to represent all those in our community who are Asset-...
