David Swenson, associate scientist, had several recent media contacts:
The Gazette.com, Sept. 30
Iowa law allows “for individual TIF projects to count as districts rather than, as the law was originally written, for TIF to be applied to a comprehensive urban renewal territory,” said Dave Swenson, an Iowa State University economist who reviewed the report. “This, plus allowing city and county officials to declare TIF projects and to engage in borrowing without public approval, makes for a system of TIF usage that lacks oversight and that is applied much, much too liberally.”
Seed Quest, Oct. 1
According to data from Iowa State University, these premiums create an additional $63 million in economic activity for a total of $163 million in cumulative economic benefit to the region.
CNN, on the prevalence of undocumented labor in Iowa’s dairy industry. Swenson provided statistics from the American Community Survey on foreign-born farmworkers in Iowa, Oct. 2
Swenson was also the guest speaker at the 2018 Economic Luncheon, in Cedar Falls Oct. 3.