Amie Rivers

A technology company with a 300-person office in eastern Iowa will lay off nearly three dozen workers here this spring. Arizona-based GoDaddy announced Feb. 8 it would lay off 8% of its global workforce, or 530 workers. That will include 35 workers at its Hiawatha customer service and support center, which is in the process…

The egg prices are too damn high. And perhaps there’s something more than just a deadly bird flu to blame. High egg prices were even addressed by Rep. Ashley Hinson at a recent town hall in Grundy Center, who brought it up unprompted when talking about her two sons, ages 10 and 11, who she…

A job fair specifically for people who were formerly serving time in jail or prison is happening this week in central Iowa. The Reform Iowa Job Fair will be from 1-7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. It is the first such job fair the group has put on…

Republicans angry the party they voted for was giving companies tax credits to take farmland to build carbon capture pipelines let their representative know it at her first town hall of the year. Fewer than 20 Iowans made it to a Monday morning town hall in Grundy Center put on by US Rep. Ashley Hinson.…

A national nonprofit group that promotes taking away earned unemployment benefits has awarded Iowa its top prize for adding more restrictions for folks on unemployment. The American Institute for Full Employment (AIFE), based in Oregon, named Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) as the recipient of its 2022 Full Employment Award, IWD announced in a Friday press release.…

Opponents of a bill that could expand more types of work to younger Iowans had “real problems” with the bill, including a provision exempting nearly all liability from businesses who employ children in work-based learning programs. The bill, Senate File 167, was described by supporting senators and lobbyists as a way to make up for…

The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is the state’s whitest public university and the school’s 50-year-old Black Student Union hopes to use Black History Month as a jumping-off point for several events that “open up doors for the strong and needed conversations.” UNI’s undergraduate student population was 81.9% white in 2020, compared to 72.7% at…

Republicans are trying for a third year in a row to pass legislation that would limit how much the victims of crashes involving trucks from a trucking company could receive in financial compensation. The bill would limit non-economic damages (injuries) to $1 million, which one representative noted would be the only law of its kind…

A new bill in the Iowa Legislature would allow young teenagers to work in more hazardous conditions, while exempting businesses from liability for work-based learning programs if those teenagers get hurt. 14-year-olds could be assigned a wider array of potentially risky work, and both 14- and 15-year-olds could be scheduled for work shifts that last…

The president of the Iowa Senate commented on an Iowa House bill that would restrict Iowans on public assistance, saying she believed it was necessary because “fraud and abuse exists in our system”—though Iowa’s SNAP fraud amounts to just 0.001%. Sen. Amy Sinclair (R-Allerton) made her comments during the taping of Iowa Press on Friday.…