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Jennifer Chittenden, executive director of the Des Moines Downtown Chamber of Commerce, will be leaving that role next month after accepting another opportunity, the chamber’s board announced. In a letter to its members, the board leadership …
Projects in 21 communities have been awarded grants totaling $8.8 million through the Community Development Block Grant Program, officials with the Iowa Economic Development Authority announced today. The projects range from water and sewer improvements …
The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board today approved tax benefits for an Ankney company that makes food products, including mayonnaise, salad dressing and barbecue sauces. Mrs. Clark’s Foods was awarded $165,000 in investment tax credits …
Iowa’s businesses added 5,300 jobs in August, helping to push the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down to 6%, Iowa Workforce Development reported today. In August 2019, Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.8%; in …
Iowa’s rural economy dipped slightly in September behind a slumping farmland price index, according to the Creighton University Rural Main Street Index released Thursday. The September index for Iowa fell to 46.5, down from 46.8 in August, …
The Iowa Center is launching two new financial literacy programs to address a problem presented by the pandemic: Many small business owners, especially people of color, were denied financial assistance because they lacked the necessary …
Mineck: Disruption brings a magnifying glass to the deep problems at work in communities
Mineck’s comments reminded me of the idea of wicked problems. A “wicked problem,” for those unfamiliar, is defined by the Stanford …
After seven months of declines, the Iowa Leading Indicators Index increased 0.1% to 103.3 in July from a revised 103.1 in June, the Iowa Department of Revenue reported on Friday. The six-month diffusion index remained …
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically shifted the economy and with it, views of how communities and states should shift regional plans for the future. Business Insider named Des Moines one of the top 20 …
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