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Iowa could fund victim services with American Rescue Plan money
Iowa has plans to use American Rescue Plan money to pay $5 million for victim services.
The move is in response to a cut in the federal government’s 40% cut to the Victims of Crime Act earlier in the year. Concerns are that employees could be laid off from nonprofit organizations and cuts in services, including medical and mental health care, temporary housing and courtroom advocacy, could occur. Those cuts would have started in October, and there is a bipartisan push from attorneys general across the country asking the federal government to reverse course.
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