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Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 4:42:10 GMT -6
When Terry Branstad returned to the campaign trail in 2010, he identified three objective goals and a specific time frame in which they should be achieved. As governor, he pledged, Iowa would create 200,000 new jobs, family incomes would rise by 25 percent and the cost of government would decline by 15 percent. And it would all happen within five years. Branstad, a Republican, has been elected twice since outlining those goals, but he hasn't come close to meeting them when measured by common economic and accounting yardsticks, a Des Moines Register examination shows. And even using his preferred metrics, he's fallen short on increasing family incomes. But Branstad's pursuit of the three goals has nonetheless remade state government in profound ways, admirers and critics agree. In five years, he has focused his administration relentlessly on business growth while pruning back the size of state government, a shift conservatives applaud but critics contend has eroded state services. Read more: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/government/2016/03/05/goals-unmet-but-branstad-transforms-government/80630162/
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