Local Manufacturers Offer Hands-On Program for Middle School Students

The ICR Iowa Advanced Manufacturing Sector Board recently launched a new, creative approach to increasing awareness about careers in the manufacturing industry. Through a partnership with Vernon [...]

Elevate is giving away 15 $500 scholarships to high school seniors who are attending an Iowa Community College in the fall for a career in advanced manufacturing. Examples of eligible […]

Corridor manufacturing tours highlight job opportunities Corridor job opportunities in the manufacturing industry are plentiful; there are currently more than 500 manufacturing companies in the [...]

Eastern Iowa manufacturing plants open doors to students As manufacturers add more jobs in eastern Iowa one need is finding more workers. And this week, nearly two dozen manufacturing plants […]

Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Remains at 2.4 Percent Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.4 percent in November. The state’s jobless rate was 2.9 percent one year ago. The [...]

New year, new jobs in Iowa Thinking of a new job for the new year? In 49 out of 50 states, the biggest job sector is health care. But not […]