A new survey shows fewer Iowa businesses are planning to hire new workers. “Manpower’s” survey of businesses in a dozen Iowa cities found 29 percentplan to hire new workers in the last quarter of the year, while 10 percentplan job cuts. That’s down from the kinds of Iowa business expansionsplanned last year according to Manpower spokesman Michael Lynch.Lynch says the Iowa labor market is so tight, some businesses have given upon trying to find new workers.Businesses in Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City,Marshalltown, Mason City, Muscatine, Ottumwa, the Quad Cities, Sioux Cityand Waterloo were surveyed.
