Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: October 2, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) IWD Welcomes James Williams as New Administrator of …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: September 27, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa K-12 teachers, students invited to sign up for …
When the collapse came, Jack Quick thought his wife was having a stroke. “I couldn’t even hold a coffee cup,” June Quick recalled last month. “I just felt like spaghetti in my whole body.” By the time she was wheeled into surgery, Quick was paralyzed, the …
Iowa Workforce Development and Governor Kim Reynolds announced in late August that the schedule of unemployment insurance rates used to tax Iowa employers will remain at the lowest possible level allowed by law for 2024. This marks the second consecutive …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: September 15, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Rises to 2.9 Percent in …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 31, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Reminder: MBI-Works 2023 Endowment Funding Opportunity …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 28, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Unemployment Insurance Rates for Iowa Employers to …
Applications Extended: Central Iowa Job Training Program Grant DES MOINES, IOWA – Iowa Workforce Development has extended the timeframe for applications on the Central Iowa Job Training Program, an opportunity that supports long-term programs to help …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 17, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa’s Labor Force Participation Rate Returns to Pre- …
Eighteen months after Iowa revamped its approach to unemployment and began providing earlier job search assistance to people seeking unemployment benefits, the average length of an unemployment claim has dropped to its lowest level in more than 55 years. A …
Job-seeking educators and Iowa school administrators with still-open positions are being urged to revisit an IWD website that was set up earlier this year to help Iowans find education jobs. Iowa Workforce Development established a new Education Jobs …
Iowa Workforce Development Communications For Immediate Release Date: August 10, 2023 Contact: Jesse Dougherty Telephone: 515-725-5487 Email: communications@iwd.iowa.gov Printer Friendly Version (PDF) Iowa Expands Support for CDL Training with New …
At least 25 more children from working poor and immigrant families in Des Moines now have hope for expanded access to Barbie Adams' child care center thanks to a $240,000 grant from the state of Iowa. The money is part of $36.6 million in Child Care …
More than 335 job seekers attended a two-day job fair in Newton last month, as Iowa Workforce Development and two IowaWORKS offices joined forces to help find new careers for factory workers losing their jobs at TPI Composites. The event was so successful …
McKenna Link has always admired police officers. But for a long time, she believed that her status as a 5-foot, 2-inch woman with a high-pitched voice kept her from seriously considering law enforcement as a viable career opportunity. “It’s something that …
Nancy Mwirotsi sees the potential in making connections. But her drive is to make you see it, too. Mwirotsi, a Kenyan immigrant now nearing the end of her seventh year as executive director year of Pi515, a highly respected nonprofit in Des Moines, sees …
Despite the fact that demand for workers has never been higher, Christian Gray still believes there’s untapped potential out there that Iowa employers never see in a job interview – largely because they only interview people who apply for jobs bearing two- …
Bridget Hanner walked into the Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting last year hoping that they would pay her to wash dishes or fold laundry. Instead, she suddenly found herself on a path to a new health care career. Hanner, a lifelong resident of northwest …
There are two things to know about hiring refugees, explains Jamel Ajram, son of the Lebanese immigrant who created Ajram Upholstery and Fabric in Cedar Rapids in 1969. First, is the need to accommodate religion. Most of the roughly 245 Afghanistan …
Sue May understands the difference that a good helper can make. Thirty years ago, as she was leaving the U.S. Air Force, there was the helpful Veteran Service Officer in Nebraska who guided May through some hospital paperwork and started her down the path …
