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 ...

Iowa Workforce Development merged its system for filing unemployment claims into the IowaWorks system used to train and find people new jobs at the start of the month. IWD director Beth Townsend says ...

Working now to fix Iowa’s potential work force shortage in coming years is just one of many tasks Elizabeth Buck hopes to accomplish as Iowa Workforce Development’s new director. She and deputy ...

Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says the December unemployment number held steady while the number of people looking for work increased. “Our unemployment rate is 3.5%, and our labor ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s system for processing unemployment insurance claims and helping people find jobs will go dark at the end of the day as the state gets ready to replace it with a new, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) -- The number of unemployed Iowans rose over the past month, according to the new monthly jobs report from Iowa Workforce Development. New hires ...