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This 2025 State of the Workforce Profile highlights state workforce agency innovations, Labor Market Information, including labor force data, education levels and key industries. It also highlights programs in the agency, WIOA administering agencies, number of American Job Centers in the s...

This 2023 State of the Workforce Report: State Profile highlights state workforce agency innovations, Labor Market Information, including labor force data, education levels and key industries. It also highlights programs in the agency, WIOA administering agencies, number of American Job Ce...

In late 2021, as the Covid-19 pandemic eased and labor demand grew, Iowa’s worker shortage had become severe. The state’s workforce agency, Iowa Workforce Development (IWD), decided to create a new delivery model to return unemployment insurance (UI) to its original mission as a public saf...

This Iowa state profile includes a snapshot of how the state responded to the COVID-19 pandemic during calendar year 2020. Throughout the pandemic, workforce agencies worked tirelessly to assist an unprecedented number of individuals and implement a host of new unemployment insurance progr...

Iowa Governor announces UI tax extension to assist small businesses

IA - Gov Reynolds announces assistance for employees and employers affected by COVID19

This 2019 State of the Workforce Report for Iowa highlights Labor Market Information including Labor Force Data, Education Levels and Key Industries. It also highlights Workforce Development Programs, American Job Centers, Individuals Served by Iowa's Workforce Services, Unemployment ...

In early 2016, NASWA’s Labor Market Information (LMI) Committee established an ad hoc workgroup to collect data on the different organizational structures state agencies have developed for the production of workforce information. Thirty-three state LMI Directors provided data, which is con...

SIDES Employer Response Study: Executive SummaryBACKGROUNDThe State Information Data Exchange System (SIDES) went live, verifying information about unemployment insurance (UI) benefit claims from employers and third-party administrators (TPA) through a nationally standardized computer-to-c...

BACKGROUNDThe State Information Data Exchange System (SIDES) went live, verifying information about unemployment insurance (UI) benefit claims from employers and third-party administrators (TPA) through a nationally standardized computer-to-computer system in February 2010. The use of SIDE...