Two workforce boards in Iowa are merging to offer better service to businesses and job hunters. The State Workforce Development Board approved the merger of the South Central Workforce Development ...

Iowa Workforce Development Executive Director Beth Townsend testified this week in front of a U.S. House subcommittee on work and welfare, highlighting the state’s revamp of its unemployment system ...

Iowa’s disability employment program is undergoing restructuring — an outgrowth of the 2023 state government realignment approved by Republican lawmakers and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds — that Iowa ...

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 ...