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Iowa schools receive financial literacy awards

Ten Iowa schools have been selected to receive a $1,000 award from the Iowa Bankers Association and its member banks for participating in Project Financial Literacy. Project Financial Literacy is a program designed to promote …

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Give Back Iowa Challenge begins April 14

Ready to ramp up your company’s volunteer efforts? Iowa employers are invited to pre-register to participate in the Give Back Iowa Challenge to encourage their employees to volunteer and report their volunteer hours. Employers with the highest …

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Miller joins attorneys general in seeking herbal supplements inquiry

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general today sent a letter to congressional leaders seeking an investigation of the herbal supplements industry, and asked Congress to consider strengthening the …

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Iowa index decreases in February

The Iowa Leading Indicators Index decreased to 109.1 in February from 109.2 in January, the Iowa Department of Revenue reported.

 

The six-month annualized change in the index held at -0.7 percent from January. Although …

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Voya assesses retirement readiness

Voya Financial Inc. has released an index it believes shows that Americans are generally behind in their financial preparations for retirement. The report incorporated two surveys conducted with Greenwald & Associates Inc. in which workers and recent …

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Dwolla’s Milne to speak April 15

Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla, will speak at the Business Innovation Zone’ Startup Stories event at 11:30 a.m. April 15 in Conference Room 101 of Ruan II. General admission is free; tickets including lunch cost $15. Launched …

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Workiva joins Russell index

Ames-based Workiva Inc., the publicly traded creator of a cloud-based productivity platform, has been added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the largest 3,000 U.S. …

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Reservations due soon for Warren County development group’s business awards event

Reservations are due by Friday for Warren County Economic Development Corp.’s Excellence in Business awards event. The free event is 5 to 7 p.m. April 9 at Simpson College’s Great Hall. Registration can be made …

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Des Moines attorney voted into Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers

Jason Miller, a civil defense attorney with Des Moines-based Patterson Law Firm LLP, has been voted into the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, in which membership in by invitation only and limited to 250 lawyers, …

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Falling oil prices led to job cuts last month

Employers planned to trim payrolls by 36,594 in March, with most of the cuts in the energy sector, outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. said.

 

The March total was 27.6 percent lower than …