I don't know if it's just a break they are proposing or what, but it's fairly interesting...
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/pf/i...tive/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Iowa legislators are taking dead aim at one of the state's biggest problems: retaining young residents. A proposed tax break could put an extra $600, on average, in the pocket of every resident under 30 years old.
"We're a rapidly aging population," says Jeff Lamberti, an Iowa state senator who helped introduce the bill. "We're approaching a time when every dollar of new revenue we get will be spent on just one thing, Medicaid."
Nearly twice as many counties in the state have lost residents in the last 70 years than have gained. As in much of the Midwest, rural areas suffer most.
The story repeats itself throughout America's heartland, where stagnant or negative population growth has long been the norm.
Nearly every midwestern farm state is scrambling to respond, often by putting together packages of personal and business incentives.
North Dakota supports buffalo production and eco-tourism as ways to stimulate growth. The state facilitates loans to ranchers and its agricultural extension service offers technical assistance.
Some Kansas towns give away land. (See Free land in the heartland.)
The U.S. Congress has even entered the fray, considering a "New Homestead Act," which includes a long list of personal and business incentives designed to re-ignite growth in rural
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/pf/i...tive/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Iowa legislators are taking dead aim at one of the state's biggest problems: retaining young residents. A proposed tax break could put an extra $600, on average, in the pocket of every resident under 30 years old.
"We're a rapidly aging population," says Jeff Lamberti, an Iowa state senator who helped introduce the bill. "We're approaching a time when every dollar of new revenue we get will be spent on just one thing, Medicaid."
Nearly twice as many counties in the state have lost residents in the last 70 years than have gained. As in much of the Midwest, rural areas suffer most.
The story repeats itself throughout America's heartland, where stagnant or negative population growth has long been the norm.
Nearly every midwestern farm state is scrambling to respond, often by putting together packages of personal and business incentives.
North Dakota supports buffalo production and eco-tourism as ways to stimulate growth. The state facilitates loans to ranchers and its agricultural extension service offers technical assistance.
Some Kansas towns give away land. (See Free land in the heartland.)
The U.S. Congress has even entered the fray, considering a "New Homestead Act," which includes a long list of personal and business incentives designed to re-ignite growth in rural
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