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Host: Iowa Workforce Development About: The One Door Many Paths Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Summit will be held May 21. This is Iowa’s second jointly facilitated event by Iowa Workforce Development, the Iowa …
Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 2.8 percent in March from 2.9 percent in February. It was 3.3 percent year ago. The U.S. rate stayed at 4.1 percent in March.
“Iowa’s economy continued to …
Host: West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce About: Wendy Wintersteen, president of Iowa State University, will share ISU’s exceptional return on investment and unique value as a land-grant institution, and her vision for cultivating innovation. …
Greater Des Moines Partnership CEO Jay Byers visited China April 7-15, and came back optimistic that the trade tensions between the giant Asian country and the United States will ease. Byers has been representing the United …
The last few weeks have brought plenty of news on international trade, with the U.S. and China taking center stage. Then there are headlines that the president is reconsidering his stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. …
There’s a late-session debate among state lawmakers on how much to cut taxes, and whether the corporate rates should be altered in addition to the individual rates, the Des Moines Register reported. The House and Senate …
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a 1933 program to aid American farmers caught in the middle of a trade dispute between Trump and China, the Washington Post reports. The Trump administration is reviewing the Commodity …
President Donald Trump met with farm-state interests today, leaving open the possibility that the Trans Pacific Partnership, a top priority of Iowa business interests, may be renewed. Trump had lumped TPP into a group of …
I swung by the State Historical Building to hear a presentation by Jason Roberts of the Better Block Foundation, who was brought to town as part of the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Tomorrow …
The Greater Des Moines Partnership wants to help the small businesses that account for 80 percent or more of its 6,100 members plan for the next chapter in their corporate history.
It’s called succession planning, …
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