State Auditor Rob Sand speaking at a recent news conference in his office. (RI file photo) A special investigation by the state auditor’s office has found the head of a taxpayer funded program to help ...

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 ...

A program director at a Des Moines nonprofit allegedly siphoned money from public grants and private donations for herself and her family over seven years, exposing a lack of oversight by officials at ...

DES MOINES --- While Iowa’s economy is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic in some ways, at least one significant pocket of disruption remains: in the state’s workforce, where thousands of Iowans are ...

IOWA IS SHADED IN RED. A NEW REPORT FROM THE STATE AUDITOR IS OUT TODAY. SAYS MORE THAN $400,000 WERE EMBEZZLED FROM AN IOWA WORK PROGRAM. THE REPORT SHOWS. THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR CHILDREN AND ...

Mar. 19—The IowaWORKS Mobile Workforce Center — which was unveiled last year by the governor and Iowa Workforce Development (IWD), and was subsequently deployed to Perry when its Tyson plant closed — ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - A former program director for Children and Families of Iowa (CFI) misspent more than $400,000 over a period of about seven years, according to a new report from State Auditor ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa's unemployment insurance system is undergoing a significant transformation. The existing system will go offline Tueday and will be replaced with a modernized platform aimed at ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa businesses shed 2,700 jobs in June, lowering total nonfarm employment to 1,590,700, according to ...

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, ...