Economic Development

The Iowa Innovation Gateway, its partners and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) are hosting “Risk and Rewards, an Exporting Conference” from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Michael J. Manatt Community Center in …

Architecture firms have experienced a 40 percent drop in revenues since the beginning of the recession in 2008 and have had to cut personnel by nearly a third, according to a report released today.

The …

The U.S. unemployment rate would be around 7 percent instead of 8 percent to 9 percent without the current level of doubt among consumers about economic issues, including fiscal policy, according to a study released …

The Vision Iowa Board awarded $321,000 in grants to help fund a historic depot renovation in Osceola, a white-water feature in Elkader and riverfront development in Spencer, the board said Thursday.

The board gave $88,000 …

A one-mile section of Sixth Avenue north of downtown Des Moines has been selected to receive technical assistance for green infrastructure design under an Environmental Protection Agency program called Greening America’s Capitals. The benefits will include …

Beginning next month, more than 4 million businesses representing various industries and geographic areas will receive 2012 Economic Census forms. The Economic Census is the Census Bureau’s official five-year measure of American business and the …

Consumer spending continues to be restrained by stagnating wages, which is hurting the country’s economic recovery, Bloomberg reported.

The Labor Department reported last week that in August, average hourly earnings were little changed from the …

Employers announced plans to cut 32,239 workers from their payrolls in August, according to global outplacement consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

That’s the lowest number of monthly job cuts by U.S.-based firms since …

The Iowa Business Council’s third-quarter survey of executives of …