DES MOINES - Waiters, bartenders and hotel employees are among the workers idled in the novel coronavirus pandemic most driving a sharp spike in unemployment benefit claims, state officials said ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. More than 110,000 Iowans filed for new or continuing unemployment claims between July 26 and Aug. 1, the ...
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Iowa dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,486 in ...
Iowa’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.4% in February. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says there are ...