CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa leaders are seeing an increase in people joining apprenticeships, the Department of Workforce Development has announced $3.4 million to support those programs. That ...

The state unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent to 3.5% in April. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says that’s partly because more people are looking for work. “We had 5,000 ...

DES MOINES — After being in place for decades, the state’s unemployment system website is getting a significant upgrade after Iowa Workforce Development announced it will replace it with a new, ...

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 ...