Iowa Workforce Development could soon be coming to your neighborhood. The state will begin deploying a 32-foot long bus that will serve as an Iowa Works mobile workforce center, with career counselors ...

When Ashley Hinson travels her northeast Iowa congressional district, she hears one recurring theme from constituents. “What I continue to hear from folks is workforce, workforce, workforce is the ...

Iowa Workforce Development reported Thursday that initial unemployment claims nearly doubled from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5.The IWD said it received 10,747 initial claims, compared to 5,390 claims reported in ...

DES MOINES --- While Iowa’s economy is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic in some ways, at least one significant pocket of disruption remains: in the state’s workforce, where thousands of Iowans are ...

Iowa’s labor force participation rate has reached a level that had not been achieved since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new monthly figures released by Iowa Workforce Development. The ...

criminal blame. No charges have been filed. Right now... Iowans are unable to file for unemployment benefits. The Iowa Workforce Development website will be down for the next six days. This is what it ...

Iowa lawmakers are turning their attention to the academic offerings of community colleges and public universities as they ...

Many Iowans cannot uproot for a distant university, which is a disservice to them and to our workforce, writes state Rep. Taylor Collins.

It’s time to deliver for working Iowa families. That means all legislators working to find common ground and move past nearly ...

Iowa workers lose about $900 million a year to overtime payment violations, minimum wage law violations and other forms of wage theft, a new study found. According to “A Heist in Plain Sight,” a ...

Going into Iowa’s 2021 legislative session, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says Iowa’s economy was growing and had the largest workforce in history when 2020 began and before the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa had ...