The Gazette's investigative reporter Erin Jordan explains the reporting she did to reveal why some Iowans are concerned about a generous tax credit Student Tuition Organizations get to assist students at private schools.
Iowa was the first state to offer resettlement assistance to refugees in 1975 and continued to do so in 1979. But refugee assistance in Iowa, which is dealing with an influx of Burmese refugees, is not the same as it was 40 years ago.
In an IowaWatch interview, Des Moines Register reporter Jason Clayworth discusses the premise behind the newspaper's investigation into abuses of property forfeitures in Iowa. Part of a series of IowaWatch examinations of investigative reporting in Iowa.