DES MOINES, Iowa – Governor Kim Reynolds has proposed legislation to reform Iowa’s unemployment insurance system.

The agency credited the rise in unemployment to an increase in the workforce from an influx of December college graduates.

The 91st General Assembly reconvened at the Capitol for a full week of legislating. Last week, there were 144 new bill ...

Iowa’s unemployment rate is below the national average, but more Iowans aren’t being counted because they’ve given up on finding a job. The law she’s proposing would reduce the unemployment insurance ...

IWD says the number of unemployed Iowans increased to 53,900 in December 2024 from 53,000 in November and the total number of ...

Iowa’s unemployment program is a little bit like Caitlin Clark. She took the basketball world by storm with her efficiency and the ease with which she gets her job done on the court. And Iowa ...

Kim Reynolds to reduce the amount companies pay into Iowa's unemployment trust fund. Reynolds, a Republican, called for the tax cuts in her annual Condition of the State address, saying Iowa's ...

The relationship between inflation and unemployment has traditionally been an inverse correlation. However, this relationship is more complicated than it appears at first glance, and it has broken ...

Iowa Workforce Development manages unemployment claims filed on behalf of Iowans. (Photo by Getty Images, logo courtesy the State of Iowa) A city worker who was fired for falsifying water-safety data ...