DES MOINES, IOWA (March 27, 2024) — Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) has announced a successful testing period for ID.me, the new identity verification method use

DES MOINES, IOWA (March 22, 2024) — Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) plans to deploy the IowaWORKS Mobile Workforce Center to Perry early next week to begin the next phase of support for workers impacted by the impending closure of the Tyson Foods plant.

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 24, 2024) — Iowa Workforce Development is announcing a new round of available funding to help jumpstart youth internship programs in high-demand fields this summer. Approximately $250,000 in state funding will be made available to support internships for Iowans between the ages of fourteen and 24.

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 19, 2024) — Iowa’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate decreased slightly to 3.2 percent in December amid hiring gains in both construction and manufacturing. The state’s jobless rate was 3.3 percent last month and 3.0 percent one year ago. The US unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent.

DES MOINES, IOWA (December 27, 2023) — Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) announces a partnership with ID.me, the next-generation digital-identity network that simp

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 17, 2023) — Iowa’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.2 percent in October, up from 3.1 percent a year ago. The state’s labor-force participation rate decreased from 68.6 percent to 68.4 percent but remains 0.3 percent higher than one year ago. Meanwhile, the US unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in October, and the national labor-force participation rate fell to 62.7 percent.

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 15, 2023) — Iowa Workforce Development is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week, with a focus this year on the innovation that is driving new growth in Registered Apprenticeship (RA) programs across the state. Iowa has remained a leader in not only the growth of new RA programs, but also in the unique ways that partnerships have formed to build the workforce pipeline in more professions than ever before.

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 9, 2023) — Iowa Workforce Development today is announcing a new partnership that will make it easier than ev

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 20, 2023) — Eighteen vocational rehabilitation counselors who currently work with job candidates in offices across from the Iowa Capitol complex will be moving their desks next week to the IowaWORKS job center in south Des Moines. The change is part of implementing a broad statewide-alignment plan targeted to increase coordination of government services and make it easier for Iowans to access what they need.

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 20, 2023) — Iowa’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate ticked up to 3.0 percent in September, up from 2.9 percent last month but down from 3.1 percent a year ago. Meanwhile, Iowa’s labor force participation rate decreased slightly from 68.7 percent to 68.6 percent in September as college students left the workforce to return to school.

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