Swenson appears on panel

August 19, 2020
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David SwensonDavid Swenson, research scientist, participated on a panel, "Rebuilding for Resilience: How Will Iowa Thrive After the Pandemic?" sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Aug. 18. Kanlaya Barr, a former Iowa State economics phd grad student, was a panelist as well.

"Iowa's economy, when we moved into the pandemic, wasn't running on all cylinders. It had sort of flattened out. It wasn't growing. Over the course of the last decade, Iowa's economy grew more slowly than all of its neighbors, and it grew more slowly than all of the plains states."

 

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