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“The pace of job losses slowed in April, suggesting that the Iowa economy may be in the early stages of a turn,” said Elisabeth Buck, director of Iowa Workforce Development.

Iowa’s unemployment payments currently outpace the revenue generated by unemployment taxes paid by employers.  That’s because the number of unemployed Iowans has grown, says Elisabeth Buck, Iowa Workforce Deveopment director.
Though there are currently enough funds saved up to pay increased benefits right now, an increase in unemployment taxes for businesses could be on the [...]

In a Tuesday press conference, Culver announced a special task force that recommended nine new state employees.

Agriprocessors, the kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of the nation’s largest single-event federal immigration raid on May 12, has had fines related to numerous health and safety violations reduced by Iowa regulators.

The news is both good and bad, but mostly bad. On average women in Iowa receive 78 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Ironically enough, this is an improvement — an increase from a similar report done in 1999, which found that women earned 73 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts.

More than 30 employers will participate in a job fair today designed to help ex-offenders get jobs.

The I-80 Re-entry Job Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines. The job fair is open to the public but will focus on ex-offender populations. More [...]