Gov. Terry Branstad and top legislative leaders pledged bipartisan cooperation Wednesday after voters kept Democrats in control of the Iowa Senate and narrowed the GOP majority in the Iowa House for the next two years. “Iowa voters once again chose divided government, and their message was unmistakable: They want us to work together in moving [...]
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Gov. Terry Branstad’s executive order requiring a “jobs impact statement” for all new government rules and regulations would become a permanent statutory requirement under a bill passed by the Iowa House on Wednesday. Representatives voted 92-0 to pass their first bill of the 2012 session. House File 2042 mandates that every proposed administrative rule under [...]
continue »Corridor communities Iowa City and Cedar Rapids both posted gains on this year’s Milken Best Performing Cities index. The index ranks U.S. metros based on multiple factors in job creation and sustainability, including growth in jobs, wages, GDP and technology. Among the 200 largest metros, Cedar Rapids jumped fifteen spots to number thirteen. Iowa City [...]
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DES MOINES – The state of Iowa was honored Wednesday for its efforts to promote clean energy innovation and job creation. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration recognized the Iowa Innovation Council’s Ames-based i6 Green Project for being one of six $1 million award winners in a federal, multi-agency competition to drive technology commercialization [...]
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IOWA CITY – A list of University of Iowa construction projects in the next seven years will mean about $1 billion in industry business and 1,700 to 2,300 related jobs each of those years, UI President Sally Mason said Thursday. The projects include three major flood-recovery replacement buildings and the planned new Children’s Hospital tower [...]
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The melody of the 1978 Village People hit “Y.M.C.A.” rang out in Iowa City Friday morning as protesters sang their rewritten lyrics expressing frustrations about the American job market. “Congress, you must act like a team, because so far we don’t like what we’ve seen,” they chanted in unison. “You are killing the American Dream [...]
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“Go bigger,” is Sen. Tom Harkin’s advice to President Obama on job creation. Warning of the possibility of a depression, Harkin Thursday called for a job creation package bigger than Obama’s $447 billion proposal to jump start economic activity. He advocated a package with “less emphasis on the tax cut side and more emphasis on [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – A pair of Iowa Democratic congressmen called for more federal investment to stimulate the sluggish economy and put Iowans to work. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which the congressmen said created 5,000 jobs in Iowa, “needs a booster shot,” Sen. Tom Harkin said Aug. 22 before he and [...]
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JOHNSTON – Two session-weary leaders of the Iowa Senate held out the possibility Friday that if a property tax compromise could be forged yet this summer or fall that they would be willing to consider returning in special legislative session to enact reforms to help all classes of property owners but especially commercial enterprises. The [...]
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