David Elbert
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National debt is "speeding towards a cliff" (opens the original)
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David Elbert is a former business editor and columnist for the Des Moines Register. He now writes about local history for DSM Magazine. The national debt recently passed the $40 trillion mark, which means your share is about $117,000, or roughly half the cost of a typical Iowa home. The national debt nearly doubled in the past decade, which is more than twice the rate of inflation during those ten years. The New York Times published an interesting chart recently that tracked the national debt as
Blurred vision distorts Iowa economy (opens the original)
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David Elbert is a former business editor and columnist for the Des Moines Register. He now writes about local history for DSM Magazine. Iowa’s long history of low wages is producing a crisis that state officials either can’t see or choose to ignore. The extent of the damage can be seen in a study commissioned last December for the Iowa Department of Education. The Iowa Capital Dispatch revealed last month that officials who commissioned the report expected it would support their efforts to persu
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