Posted inBusiness & Consumer Affairs, IowaWatch, Small Town Solutions: Staying Vital in Rural Iowa

High hurdles exist for Iowaโ€™s homegrown, small town businesses

While local incentives can bring businesses to small Iowa towns, they are no guarantee that the town can be vital or bring visitors, a summer-long IowaWatch investigation of towns with fewer than 5,000 people showed. The reasons vary.

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