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AAEA News | Monday, July 14, 2025
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Axios Des Moines

Peter Orazem, Iowa State University

“Iowa's economy has not done well compared to other states for years, starting with slower growth in 2018... Iowa's hardships are more severe than those of other states because of an aging workforce and decreased immigration... Atypically, we rely on immigrants to help shore up our relatively slow population growth, and I think the labor market lack of workers has been one of the reasons why Iowa has performed relatively poorly over the last six years." 


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President's Message

Tim Beatty
AAEA President

May 2025

I want to recognize that the last few months have been difficult for many of our members. Some have lost their jobs and others have lost funding for projects years in the making. Long run plans have been upended and the future is highly uncertain. The AAEA Board understands that current events may impact folks' ability to stay engaged with AAEA. We are actively working to find ways to help folks do so. I want to talk about a few of these.

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