The U.S. Labor Department conducted its annual revision of labor numbers and found there were 31,000 more people in the Iowa labor force in January. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says that puts the rate at 67% “It’s basically a six-tenths of a point improvement on our labor force participation from where we were […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






