Report of Recommendations to Iowa State University of Science and Technology on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the University's Accounts Payable and Purchasing Systems, March 28 through April 28, 2005

State University Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Judicial Branch - County Clerks of District Courts, June 30, 2004

Other Audit Reports - Iowa Judicial Branch

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa School for the Deaf, June 30, 2004

State University Audit Report - Iowa School for the Deaf

Iowa Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Notification Letter, April 14th, 2005

State Audit Reports

Tools & Trends from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, September 2005

Community Development News

Combined Report on the Institutions Under the Control of the Iowa Department of Corrections, Schedules, Findings and Recommendations, June 30, 2004

State Audit Reports

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, June 30, 2004

State Audit Reports

Affirmative Action in Iowa, September 2005

In accordance with 19B.5 of the Code of Iowa, the 2005 Affirmative Action in Iowa report illustrates the progress made during fiscal year 2005 to balance the State's worforce, the challenges that the State must address and the effort that the Department of Administratie Services must lead in order to remove barriers that limit the hiring, retention and advancement of females, minorities and persons with disabilities in the State's workforce. Highlighted in the report are four departments that initiated proactive and innovative measures to address their workplace equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity programs. Additionally, the Department of Administrative Services-Human Resources Enterprise outlines its plan to build on its past efforts as well as pursue new initiatives to partner with advocacy groups and reach out to the commuity more directely to enhance employment opportunities for females, minorities and persons with disabilities in State of Iowa employment.

2005-2006 Academic Year Iowa Community Colleges Tuition and Fees Report, 2005

This document shows the tuition and fees charged by the 15 community colleges for the adacemic year 2005-2006. It includes comparisions to the regents institutions and to national data.

Iowa Health Focus, October 2005

Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Farm-Level Analysis of Risk Management Proposals, March 2000

This paper presents a detailed report of the representative farm analysis (summarized in FAPRI Policy Working Paper #01-00). At the request of several members of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the U.S. Senate, we have continued to analyze the impacts of the Farmers’ Risk Management Act of 1999 (S. 1666) and the Risk Management for the 21st Century Act (S. 1580). Earlier analysis reported in FAPRI Policy Working Paper #04-99 concentrated on the aggregate net farm income and government outlay impacts. The representative farm analysis is conducted for several types of farms, including both irrigated and non-irrigated cotton farms in Tom Green County, Texas; dryland wheat farms in Morton County, North Dakota and Sumner County, Kansas; and a corn farm in Webster County, Iowa. We consider additional factors that may shed light on the differential impacts of the two plans. 1. Farm-level income impacts under alternative weather scenarios. 2. Additional indirect impacts, such as a change in ability to obtain financing. 3. Implications of within-year price shocks. Our results indicate that farmers who buy crop insurance will increase their coverage levels under S. 1580. Farmers with high yield risk find that the 65 percent coverage level maximizes expected returns, but some who feel that they obtain other benefits from higher coverage will find that the S. 1580 subsidy schedule significantly lowers the cost of obtaining the additional coverage. Farmers with lower yield risk find that the increased indemnities from additional coverage will more than offset the increase in producer premium. In addition, because S. 1580 extends its increased premium subsidy percentages to revenue insurance products, farmers will have an increased incentive to buy revenue insurance. Differences in the ancillary benefits from crop insurance under the baseline and S. 1580 would be driven by the increase in insurance participation and buy-up. Given the same levels of insurance participation and buy-up, the ancillary benefits under the two scenarios would be the same.

News, I-74 Iowa-Illinois Corridor Study, Issue 4, Winter 2005

Newsletter updating the corridor study of the Mississippi Bridge project for the states of Iowa and Illinois.

News, I-74 Iowa-Illinois Corridor Study, Issue 1 Spring 2001

Newsletter updating the corridor study of the Mississippi Bridge project for the states of Iowa and Illinois.

News, I-74 Iowa-Illinois Corridor Study, Issue 2, Winter 2002

Newsletter updating the corridor study of the Mississippi Bridge project for the states of Iowa and Illinois.

News, I-74 Iowa-Illinois Corridor Study, Issue 3, Fall 2003

Newsletter updating the corridor study of the Mississippi Bridge project for the states of Iowa and Illinois.