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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:51 AM
The news out last week that Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 2.4 percent last month made this bit of news from a Bloomberg article all the more interesting -- a survey of Coursera users showed the U.S. falls behind European countries in some critical fields.
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Friday, March 22, 2019 10:46 AM
Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed nine transgender individuals for this week’s Equality Issue. All of the people Bloomberg spoke to struggled in a work environment that wasn’t necessarily ready for them, Bloomberg wrote, but many of them had stories of support and success across a diverse range of industries.
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Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00 AM
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Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00 AM
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Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00 AM
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Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00 AM
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Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:19 PM
Earlier this week we shared that the state panel that estimates how much tax revenue the state of Iowa will collect predicted a slight slowdown in the next budgeting year that starts July 1. In total, the State Revenue Estimating Conference predicted lawmakers will have about $20 million less to work with in next year’s budget.
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Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:51 AM
It seems like everyone around me is getting younger, and now it looks like the super-rich are no exception. Millennials now make up nearly half of the U.S. households with assets worth more than $25 million, according to a new report from Spectrem Group.
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Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:47 AM
A new report provides increasing evidence that global food production and consumption will have to change quite dramatically for the world to be able to sustainably feed a global population of more than 10 billion people by 2050. That includes a radically different food production in Iowa that would be far more diverse and sustainable than it is today.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:34 AM
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg employ nearly 36,000 full-time individuals. Back in the good old days of 2015 -- before Facebook was truly plunged into the spotlight with regards to election influence, privacy and other recent turbulence -- Zuckerberg shared the one question he asks before each new hire, Business Insider reports.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:00 AM
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 3:17 PM
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Friday, March 15, 2019 11:27 AM
It might sound a bit futuristic, but a few of our fellow Midwest cities are exploring a hyperloop. And not just in a "maybe someday" sort of way. From the Kansas City Star: “That 28-minute Hyperloop trip from Kansas City to St. Louis is still a long way from reality.
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Friday, March 15, 2019 6:00 AM
Doug Habgood became the new director of the Principal Charity Golf Classic in August. In talking to the Business Record about his new role, golf and managing all the details of a big sporting event, he mentioned he is a bit of a Sunday morning chef for his three daughters. His specialty: pancakes.
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Friday, March 15, 2019 6:00 AM
U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad has settled into life as in international diplomat in Beijing. It hasn’t all been about getting caught between U.S. economic interests and those of his longtime friend and tariff-setter, China President Xi Jinping.
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