Economic Development

The U.S. Small Business Administration backed 19 loans to Central Iowa businesses totaling $5,819,800 in June.

The loans will help those small businesses create 616 new jobs and retain 372 local jobs, according to data …

Iowa’s gross domestic product declined in the first quarter of 2022, following suit with declines in most states and the nation as a whole, leading an Iowa State University economist to forecast the country is …

Continued pressures from inflation, labor shortages and supply chain disruptions are causing reduced expectations among business leaders who responded to the Iowa Business Council’s second-quarter Economic Outlook survey.

The report, released today, also showed that …

Fewer Iowa manufacturers anticipate sales growth in the third quarter of 2022, but a majority of companies plan to make capital expenditures, according to the latest Iowa Association of Business and Industry Quarterly Business Survey.…

The Iowa Economic Development Authority has approved incentives for six companies that will create more than 600 jobs. According to IEDA board documents, the projects will result in nearly $265 million in capital investment in Iowa.…

Marshalltown is one of 25 small towns to receive a $25,000 T-Mobile Hometown Grant to support community development projects. The grant will go toward reconstructing downtown State Street in Marshalltown, which was damaged after the …

Iowa’s rural economy slumped below neutral growth in June, matching a similar decline regionally in a survey of bank managers released Thursday.

Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index showed that Iowa’s index score fell to 49.1, …