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VIDEO: July General Fund revenue down, for now

Iowa General Fund receipts for July of $15.6 million were 3.8 percent below July 2015 revenue due largely to the last business day of the month falling on a weekend, said Jeff Robinson, a senior…
By BPC Staff | Aug 23, 2016
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VIDEO: July General Fund revenue down, for now

Iowa General Fund receipts for July of $15.6 million were 3.8 percent below July 2015 revenue due largely to the last business day of the month falling on a weekend, said Jeff Robinson, a senior…
By BPC Staff | Aug 23, 2016
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Video: What YPs want

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By ANNE CAROTHERS | Aug 15, 2016
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Innovative Africans learn from Des Moines leaders

Drake University hosted 25 young African business and government standouts for six weeks in June and July as part of the U.S. State Department’s Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Jul 29, 2016
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VIDEO: Slight increase in June Iowa General Fund receipts

Iowa General Fund receipts, after the issuing of tax refunds, posted a minor increase for the month of June, said Jeff Robinson, a senior fiscal analyst for the Legislative Services Agency, in his monthly video…
By BPC Staff | Jul 19, 2016
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VIDEO: May provides boost to General Fund revenue

The month of May provided a good boost to year-to-date net General Fund revenue, but net revenue growth this fiscal year is about seven-tenths of a percentage point below expectations, said Jeff Robinson, a senior…
By BPC Staff | Jun 13, 2016
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VIDEO: How businesses can prepare for the Silver Tsunami

A panel of business leaders discussed the coming “Silver Tsunami,” a wave of more than 100,000 Iowans who are getting set to retire in the next five years, at the Business Record’s Power Breakfast this…
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | Jun 1, 2016
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VIDEO: See MidAmerican’s tallest wind turbine tower rise 379 feet in 6-minute time-lapse video

MidAmerican Energy has released a time-lapse video that shows the construction of its first concrete wind-turbine tower — the company’s tallest at 379 feet — in 6 minutes. Construction of the Adams County tower took 31 weeks.…
By BPC Staff | May 25, 2016
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VIDEO: April net general fund revenue decreases 19%

Iowa’s net general fund revenue decreased $78 million in April, a decrease of nearly 19 percent when compared with April 2015, said Jeff Robinson, a senior fiscal analyst for the Legislative Services Agency, in his…
By BPC Staff | May 17, 2016
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VIDEO: Audience advice on how to share the second shift

At the conclusion of Lift IOWA’s first ever panel discussion, we asked the audience to share one piece of advice on how to better share the second shift. We asked the audience to discuss what …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | May 6, 2016