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IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Iowa’s Role Helping Refugees Limited By Resources

By IowaWatch | August 10, 2015

This podcast of an IowaWatch Connection report about Iowa’s role helping refugees lets you hear from Iowans helping refugees who come into the state and from Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.

Government & Politics

Response To Refugees In Iowa Has Changed In 40 Years

By Clare McCarthy | August 5, 2015

Iowa was the first state to offer resettlement assistance to refugees in 1975 and continued to do so in 1979. But refugee assistance in Iowa, which is dealing with an influx of Burmese refugees, is not the same as it was 40 years ago.