The state’s “Mobile Workforce Center” is in Postville to help employees of the AgriStar meatpacking plant damaged by a massive fire that started early Tuesday. The company has not announced when or if the plant will reopen. A message on...
Iowa’s unemployment rate in April was 3.3%, the same as March. Iowa Workforce Development Director Beth Townsend says there was a modest increase in hiring last month. “We did see an increase of 3400 jobs in the month of April, which is a good sign,”...
Iowa’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.4% in February. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says there are some signs of tightening in sections of the economy. “Employers shed about 4,400 jobs between January and February, and our labor...
Iowa’s unemployment rate in November was 3.5%. That’s a two-tenths of a percent drop from September, the last month data is available due to the federal government shutdown this fall. Iowa Workforce Development Director Beth Townsend said the number of...
