DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 3.3% in March, down from 3.4% in February, according to Iowa ...

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SUBSIDIES. AS PART OF THAT SHUTDOWN, SOME 67 FEDERALLY PAID IOWA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STAFF MEMBERS WERE FURLOUGHED, EFFECTIVE TODAY, KCCI MARCUS MCINTOSH IS LIVE OUTSIDE IOWA ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI) - Almost 70 Iowa Workforce Development employees are furloughed as the government shutdown continues, WOI reports. The furloughs impact approximately 67 workers from the ...

In the state’s latest job report, unemployment is slightly lower, but there was also a dip in job growth.

Iowa Workforce Development Executive Director Beth Townsend testified this week in front of a U.S. House subcommittee on work and welfare, highlighting the state’s revamp of its unemployment system ...

Iowa’s disability employment program is undergoing restructuring — an outgrowth of the 2023 state government realignment approved by Republican lawmakers and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds — that Iowa ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s unemployment rate remained at 3.4% in February, unchanged from the previous month, according to new data from Iowa Workforce Development. Private education services ...

Iowa Workforce Development merged its system for filing unemployment claims into the IowaWorks system used to train and find people new jobs at the start of the month. IWD director Beth Townsend says ...

There were fewer local workers detasseling seed corn in Iowa in 2025 than in previous years as the number of temporary migrant laborers with H-2A visas doing the jobs increased, according to data ...

Ivanka Trump is headed to Iowa to promote workforce development. The daughter of President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit a learning center in the Des Moines suburb of Waukee on Monday. The Waukee ...