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Iowa's Free Enterprise Report: 2025 Edition

The Free Enterprise Report is a marquis report that provides an objective, non-partisan, fact-based analysis of the Iowa economic landscape and the state’s most pressing issues. The study is a year long undertaking and includes the CSI Economic Performance Index as well as a Free Enterprise Competitiveness Index across eight different policy areas.

Both indices provide an opportunity to look backwards and better understand where Iowa has been and what direction we are moving. We can better understand how we are performing relative to other states and we can equip policy makers, civic and business leaders with the best understanding of how our state is performing, where we are winning, where we are losing and how free enterprise principles can get us back on track.

 

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Taxes & Fees
Keeping Local Tax Dollars Local

Iowa’s local governments held $2.5 billion in public funds with ISJIT and IPAIT

Taxes & Fees
Iowa Leads the Nation in Property Tax Relief: Ranking State Reforms of the Past Decade

Iowa’s 2026 property tax reform, SF 2472, constituted the largest single property tax relief legislation in the United States in the last decade on both a per-household basis and a savings-to-personal-incom

Housing & Our Community
Housing Affordability in Iowa: Q2 2026

Iowa's housing market remains favorable in a national environment defined by unaffordability.

July 30, 2026 Andrzej Wieciorkowski
Free Enterprise Report
Free Enterprise Report: 2026 Edition

The Free Enterprise Report is a marquis report that provides an objective, non-partisan, fact-based analysis of the Iowa economic landscape and the state’s most pressing issues.