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 ...

JOHNSTON -- Iowa’s state workforce development director said Friday the number of unemployment claims being filed as a result of the novel coronavirus is “staggering.” Official numbers will not be ...

DES MOINES — The number of initial unemployment claims in Iowa, filed between Jan. 17 and 23, was 5,510, a decrease of 870 from last week’s adjusted numbers. There were 4,938 initial claims by ...

Iowa Workforce Development officials report the initial unemployment insurance claims filed for the week of March 15-21 was 40,952 and the agency paid a total of $10,674,712 of unemployment insurance ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - A new report from Iowa Workforce Development found Iowa lost around 7,400 jobs over the last year. According to the report, unemployment has risen from 2.7% to 3.3% from 2024 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowans filing for unemployment online will notice big changes starting tomorrow. Iowa Workforce Development is trading it’s decades old system for one it says will be ...

JOHNSTON, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) - Iowa’s workforce may not yet know how President Donald Trump’s global trade war could impact it in the weeks ahead, but another 44 workers found ...

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 ...

JOHNSTON -- Iowa’s state workforce development director said Friday the number of unemployment claims being filed as a result of the novel coronavirus is “staggering.” ...

DES MOINES — Waiters, waitresses, bartenders, hotel employees and other workers in accommodation and food services industries who were idled because of the COVID-19 outbreak are filing jobless ...