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The Iowa Economic Development Authority today announced $951,000 in Main Street Iowa Challenge Grants for 14 projects, including one to help upgrade a free meal site at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1548 Eighth St. in …
A collaboration announced by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman on Friday will help create a bigger economic development pie for both states, officials said. Advance Southwest Iowa, a recently established public-private …
Taking a selfie – a self-taken photograph – was such a popular trend in 2013 that “selfie” was named Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year.
We’re not here to say selfies will be a business …
Buzzfeed.com, a Manhattan-based website that tries to reflect viral content on the Internet, has declared Des Moines tops on its list of “10 Midwest Cities You Should Visit.” Add it to the growing list of accolades for …
Editor’s note: Before all of our Power Breakfast events, we bring the panelists to the Business Record for a pre-event meeting on the topic and to banter through potential questions. We always leave that meeting …
Four Des Moines area business leaders told about 300 people at the Business Record’s annual Economic Forecast event on Wednesday that they expect Iowa’s economy to improve slightly in 2013.
Here are highlights of comments …
Economists say the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee will maintain asset buying at $85 billion a month and retain the commitment to hold interest rates near zero percent until the unemployment rate falls …
The economy shrank unexpectedly in the fourth quarter, hurt by the biggest drop in defense spending in four decades, Bloomberg reported.
Gross domestic product, the volume of all goods and services produced, dropped at a …
Iowa small business employment decreased by 0.08 percent in January, according to the Intuit Payroll Small Business Index.
The index, which draws data from about 171,000 small business customers nationwide of Intuit Online Payroll and …
Financial burdens and responsibilities for middle-aged Americans are increasing because of their aging parents and grown children who are struggling to achieve financial independence, Pew Research Center reported.
Almost half, 47 percent, of adults in …
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