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Kirkwood Community College aims to connect adults, employers to virtual reality tools with new lab
Iowa Workforce Development recently announced plans to buy a 32-foot-long, custom-built bus to deliver workforce assistance to all corners of the state.
The ratio of college graduates produced in Iowa, to those living in Iowa is worse than all six of the state’s border neighbors, the analysis shows.
has left the elderly residents of those facilities in a “precarious position.”
Retail chain’s board formal action taken day after Cedar Rapids workers notified of pending job cuts
Nineteen states have embraced full legalization of marijuana, while 19 others have enacted medical marijuana programs.
The median home price in Marion climbed by 7 percent over the past year -- a “significant” increase, a consultant told Marion City Council Tuesday.
Just weeks ahead of the start of the busy holiday shopping and shipping season, Nordstrom sent emails to employees at its Midwest Fulfillment Center in Cedar Rapids saying the corporation planned to “adjust the size” of its workforce there.
Taiwanese trade representatives signed the informal agreement Tuesday during a ceremony at the Iowa Capitol.
Representatives of Ingredion and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 100G -- now in its seventh week of a strike against the manufacturer’s Cedar Rapids facility -- were asked to leave Hotel Kirkwood Tuesday morning because the two sides became heated over Ingredion officials bringing armed security professionals with them, the union said.
The Iowa City branch, anticipated to open later this year, will be at 300 S. Clinton St. in the first floor of the Edge.
Efforts in Iowa will focus in Cedar Rapids -- where both ADM and PepsiCo have factories -- and in Clinton.
Much of their inability to act comes from a fear of making a mistake.
