Workforce

The school board voted to give each new teacher a $5,000 bonus for working in the district. They hope it will fill the growing vacancies in classrooms.

The AIM Institute is partnering with southwest Iowa organizations to make careers in tech more attainable for the Latino population.

Providers aren’t able to bring the same level of care without enough staff. That leaves many seeking help in limbo.

The maximum amount of time most Iowans can receive unemployment benefits would be cut from 26 weeks to 16 weeks under a bill advanced Tuesday by House Republicans. The bill would also require claimants to wait a week to start receiving benefits, and to accept a lower-paying job offer more quickly.

Many people across Iowa are looking for solutions to the state’s workforce shortage. But what do some of the state’s unemployed have to say?

Two organizations that serve immigrant and refugee communities in Iowa have won funding to help address the state’s worker shortage.

A panel of Iowa state representatives advanced the first pair of bills to come out of the governor’s child care task force Wednesday.

Host Ben Kieffer is joined by IPR Statehouse reporter Katarina Sostaric for a conversation with Iowa legislative leaders on day one of a new session.

Iowa’s 2022 legislative session begins Monday. That’s when 150 elected officials from across the state will gather at the Statehouse in Des Moines for a few months to enact new state laws and decide how to spend the money Iowans pay in taxes.

Sioux City officials met with state legislation to discuss priorities ahead of the upcoming 2022 legislative session.