Economic Development

The economy shrank unexpectedly in the fourth quarter, hurt by the biggest drop in defense spending in four decades, Bloomberg reported.

Gross domestic product, the volume of all goods and services produced, dropped at a …

Iowa small business employment decreased by 0.08 percent in January, according to the Intuit Payroll Small Business Index.

The index, which draws data from about 171,000 small business customers nationwide of Intuit Online Payroll and …

Financial burdens and responsibilities for middle-aged Americans are increasing because of their aging parents and grown children who are struggling to achieve financial independence, Pew Research Center reported.

Almost half, 47 percent, of adults in …

Fewer workers in most of America’s larger cities were unemployed last month compared with a year earlier, according to a report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

All of the Iowa cities surveyed …

The majority of Iowa entrepreneurs plan to hire more workers in the next six months, according to a survey by The Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

Survey results show that 73 percent of the state’s entrepreneurs expect to …

A business group gave Iowa its annual economic report card on Monday night. The results: not much has changed since 2012.

Each year the Iowa Business Council (IBC) releases its Iowa Competitiveness Index, which analyzes …

Total personal income in Polk County grew by 16.45 percent between 2006 and 2011, according to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis compiled by Bizjournals.com.

Total 2011 personal income, defined as the amount …

The index of U.S. leading indicators rose in December by the most in three months, Bloomberg reported. 

The Conference Board’s gauge of the outlook for the next three to six months increased 0.5 percent. Economists …