Radio Iowa

Iowa Workforce Development site worked through a few issues in transition

Iowa Workforce Development merged its system for filing unemployment claims into the IowaWorks system used to train and find people new jobs at the start of the month. IWD director Beth Townsend says ...
ABC Kcrg 9

As more people join apprenticeships, Iowa Workforce Development gives out millions to apprenticeship programs

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 ...
Radio Iowa

Update sees Iowa’s workforce participation up, unemployment holds steady

The U.S. Labor Department conducted its annual revision of labor numbers and found there were 31,000 more people in the Iowa labor force in January. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend ...
Quad-City Times

Iowa Workforce Development outlines new programs

Working now to fix Iowa’s potential work force shortage in coming years is just one of many tasks Elizabeth Buck hopes to accomplish as Iowa Workforce Development’s new director. She and deputy ...
Yahoo

IowaWORKS Mobile Workforce Center to make a pitstop in Newton

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 — ...