Iowa's unemployment rate increased slightly in August, the first uptick in several months. Iowa Workforce Development executive director, Beth Townsend, says conditions on the national level factor in. Iowa's unemployment rate rose from 2.7% in July to 2.9% in August, while that national rate increa...
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Everyone gets everything he wants...
Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
hey folks, we’ll be quick and to the point with this one: ##### we have made the decision to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. we recognize this is hugely inconvenient for a wide variety of reasons, but we think this is a decision we need to take immediately. the remainder of the post...
My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I'm subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.
Eternal September anyone?
And someone from McKinsey & Co. is currently making money from this as a consultant
Sen. Pam Jochum replaces Sen. Zach Wahls as Iowa Senate minority leader
The leadership change came after Sen. Zach Wahls' move to remove two longtime staffers from the Senate Democratic Leader's office.
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It really kinda is the check coming due because of the rise in interest rates. Investors final want to see the money
Postsecondary enrollment nationally stayed well below pre-COVID levels this spring — down 1.3 million students or 7 percent from 2019 — and Iowa remained among the hardest-hit, with a 13 percent drop in combined community college, private, and public university enrollment over the four years.
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