An antiviral pill that people could take at home to reduce their symptoms and speed recovery could prove groundbreaking, easing the crushing caseload on U.S. hospitals and helping to curb outbreaks in poorer countries with weak health care systems.
Remember that customers also have been through a lot and expect businesses to understand their evolving priorities.
Homes for Iowa, started in 2019, aims to satisfy two of Iowa’s biggest needs — training workers for in-demand jobs and building affordable housing for Iowa communities. The program at the Newton Correctional Facility supports several apprenticeship programs for offenders.
Closures of wood and metal shops have dramatically reduced the opportunities for Anamosa offenders to participate in apprenticeships, shown to reduce recidivism and improve an ex-offender’s likelihood of getting a job on the outside.
Mitchell Stites got 2,200 hours of hair cutting experience as a barber in the Iowa Department of Corrections, using clippers -- no scissors or straight-edges allowed -- to do bald fades and trims to make the men incarcerated with him at Fort Dodge look and feel good.
Last year, the Iowa Department of Corrections and NewBoCo, in Cedar Rapids, started a coding program for women at the prison, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Google Impact Challenge. The pilot project is modeled after NewBoCo’s Delta V program, a 20-week boot camp where individuals with no technical background become Full Stack JavaScript developers.
HappyGram is a card delivery service for those living in senior communities. Family and friends go to the HappyGram website where they can write a personalized message and upload a photo from their computer or smartphone.
In her role as a Coe College professor, Maria Dean said she enjoyed helping students make connections to a future career path, never discouraging them as she’d been discouraged early on in her career.
September, the first full month of football, which included the annual Cy-Hawk game and two Iowa universities in college football’s Top 10, was bound to produce record wagering, according to sports gaming analysts.
Local bookstores brace for supply chain challenges
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week. Iowa recorded 1,767 new claims for the week.
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