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Nebraska lawmakers over-rode the governor's veto of a teacher pension bill that passed the legislature unanimously.Senato...
As the school year winds down, this is Teacher Appreciation Week across the country.School districts in South Dakota are work...
The South Dakota State Employees Organization House of Delegates met over the weekend in Sioux Falls.Eric Ollila , executive ...
The debate on immigration reform is slowly moving through the Senate, with the “Gang of 8” Senators’ bill s...
The Iowa Senate has unanimously voted to create a new state tax credit for Iowa small businesses that provide health care ben...
Democrats in the Iowa Senate have voted to hire 13 new state employees to inspect large livestock facilities and they warn th...
As insurance carriers learn more about health care reform, the more they say rates will be going up. Jerome Rewolinski is the...
The federal Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress just over three years ago, and more of its provisions are becoming eff...
Health care providers in South Dakota were among the sponsors of a one cent sales tax increase proposal that was defeated by ...
A major business expansion is underway in Vermillion. Eagle Creek Software Services has announced their intention to build a ...
The Iowa state auditor says legislators should consider using the 800-million dollar state budget surplus to pay off state de...
South Dakota legislators passed an omnibus business incentive plan in the last days of the 2013 session - The “Building...
February's Mid-America Business Conditions Index dropped slightly compared to January. February's number came in at 5...
Some 85-billion dollars in automatic, mandatory spending cuts are beginning nationwide as part of the process known as seques...
There sometimes are just seven state troopers patrolling Iowa highways overnight. The Iowa State Troopers Association is aski...
Northern Beef Packers Director of Business Development, Pricing and Marketing A.J. Munger says the processing plant in Aberde...
Wednesday, Nebraska Cattlemen Association members testified against one of Governor Heineman’s tax reform bills, LB 405...
The Yankton School Board has hired Dakota Educational Consultants to coordinate the search for a new superintendent.Dr. Joe G...
Congress may soon be dealing with a package of bills dealing with immigration reform. A bi-partisan group of eight Senators w...
The January Economic Index report for the Midwest Region did rise above that growth neutral 50 mark but Creighton University ...
A bi-partisan group of Senators are pushing for immigration reform legislation.The bill calls for a pathway to citizenship fo...
Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, health care providers have to give the federal government more information on the...
An issue that South Dakota voters defeated last November would have raised the state sales tax by one cent, with half going t...
A bill in the Nebraska Legislature would provide protections for workers Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others.District...
Ten groups including the National Milk Producers Federation have come together to form the Agriculture Work Force Coalition.C...
Tax revenue poured into Nebraska state coffers last month, up 17-percent over expectation.State Tax Commissioner Doug Ewald r...
Northern Beef Packing company officials in Aberdeen have successfully completed their final round of financing, are continuin...
Governor Dennis Daugaard has proposed a three point two percent increase in funding for the state’s universities in the...
The impending fiscal cliff also means the end of extended unemployment benefits for about two million Americans.In South Dako...
Each year the Social Security Administration uses the Consumer Price Index, or CPI, to determine if those receiving benefits ...
Social Security benefits have entered into discussions over the fiscal cliff.The Obama Administration has suggested using a &...
University of Iowa President Sally Mason admitted during a meeting with reporters she has some issues to work on and said she...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has included a three percent raise for state employees in the 2014 budget he delivered ...
Youth employment is at its lowest level since World War Two. Nationally, only about half of the people 16 to 24 have jobs. Th...
For the fourth time in the past five months, the monthly Mid-American Business Conditions Index remained below growth neutral...
During her re-election campaign, South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem made of point of her thirty three votes against the A...
While results of the November elections confirmed that health care reform will continue, health care providers have been plan...
Mexico’s incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto says he wants to work with President Barack Obama on comprehensive immig...
Nebraska Appleseed says it favored a state-run health insurance exchange, rather than having Nebraska join the federal exchan...
It appears the election this month has settled the question of health care reform for the time being.Many pieces of the feder...
The National Farmers Union is urging Congress to take action on tax reform in addition to spending reductions as part of thei...
The Yankton City Commission officially approved a contract Monday for new city manager Amy Nelson. She is current city manage...
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns says the fight against the federal healthcare overhaul is over...decided by last week’s e...
Voters in South Dakota will decide on a one cent sales tax increase next week. Initiated Measure 15 was placed on the ballot ...
Several legislative forums have been held this week as Election Day nears.In a District 18 Senate meeting at Mount Marty Coll...
Nebraska’s economy remains strong, though its growth has slowed a bit.University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business...
Those receiving Social Security will see an increase of 1.7 percent next year in their benefits. That cost of living adjustme...
The South Dakota Legislative Planning Committee will meet again Thursday in Pierre. The 2012 legislature created the body as ...
Nebraska hopes to attract military veterans seeking a place to settle down after serving their country.State Labor Department...
The leaders of Iowa’s nonprofit organizations say they are facing a "critical" shortage of workers as the nee...
Governor Dave Heineman says the "Nebraska Option" for the Essential Health Benefits plan under the federal healthca...
Farm, Ranch and Fishery Cooperatives posted record sales and income in 2011. This surpasses the previous record sales in 2008...
Creighton University Economist Dr. Ernie Goss isn't optimistic about future economic growth in the 4th quarter after rele...
Governor Dennis Daugaard has decided that the State of South Dakota will not set up its own health insurance exchange, opting...
South Dakota’s unemployment rate ticked up a bit in August to four point five percent. That is the highest percentage s...
Iowa's unemployment rate has risen by two-tenths of a percent. Iowa Workforce Development spokeswoman Kerry Koonce says t...
Unemployment in Nebraska remains low...half the national rate.Labor Commissioner Cathy Lang says a rebounding manufacturing s...
Under the terms of the federal Affordable Care Act, states have to develop health insurance exchanges, where people who other...
A new report shows few Iowa employers are expecting to add jobs over the last three months of the year. The Manpower Employme...
Plenty of questions remain unanswered as time runs out for Nebraska to establish a health insurance exchange under provisions...
The State of South Dakota is looking for people to fill open jobs. The state has hired a recruitment company for some critica...
The South Dakota Unemployment Advisory Council is recommending no changes in the formula used to collect from state businesse...
The South Dakota Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council will ask the legislature to impose more severe penalties on those th...
The Heineman Administration rejects suggestions made by the Nebraska Democratic Party that it didn't follow proper proced...
Iowa's unemployment rate rose to 5.3 percent in July, up slightly from 5.1 percent in June. Kerry Koonce is a spokesperso...
Many companies and their employees are watching and waiting to see what happens with health care reform.The Supreme Court rul...
The Yankton School Board has decided to revamp the insurance it offers to teachers and other employees.The board decided to c...
One of the complaints from companies trying to expand is the lack of affordable housing for any incoming workers.Mike Delling...
Prior to adjourning for the August break the U.S. Senate approved bi partisan legislation extending the E Verify program. The...
When the U-S Supreme Court upheld the health-care reform law, it may have set the stage for improved conditions for workers a...
A national survey says Sioux Falls is the best city in the country for senior citizens.The Milken Institute study; “The...
Tuesday, the U.S. House passed Iowa Congressman Tom Latham’s Preserving America’s Family Farm Act. The measure pr...
Officials with the Heineman Administration have attempted to assure a legislative committee that Nebraska is on track impleme...
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson is critical of Governor Dave Heineman's stance on expanding Medicaid.Heineman has said the st...
Iowa’s top two financial officials say it's time to re-establish upper limits or "caps" on the pension ch...
The US House voted again this week to repeal the federal health care reform law that was passed in 2010.It was the thirty thi...
Chris Specht was elected president of the Yankton School Board at their re-organization meeting this week. The board veteran ...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the state cannot afford to expand Medicaid, sending a letter to three state senators obj...
The Yankton School Board has been considering changes to the health insurance they offer teachers and other employees.vThe Si...
An effort is underway to ensure Iowa's nursing workforce is properly prepared to meet an increasingly complex and sophist...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the state has time to implement the federal healthcare law's provisions.The law pass...
Strong reactions to the Supreme Court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional and the individual insurance mand...
The Supreme Court ruled that much of the Affordable Health Care Act is constitutional, which means provisions already enacted...
A national report from the Institute for a Competitive Workforce gives four year universities in South Dakota low grades when...
Northern Beef Packing Company officials are shooting for their plant opening in three weeks. Northern’s Marketing and P...
The South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation has begun a new initiative to avoid having people stay on long term unemp...
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling could come any day on the healthcare reform issue. University of Nebraska-Lincoln constitutional ...
Signs continue to point to a slow improvement in South Dakota’s economy. The latest trend is the number of open jobs be...
Signs continue to point to a slow improvement in South Dakota’s economy. The latest trend is the number of open jobs be...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad plans to go into contract talks with the unions that represent state workers this fall and seek ...
Eleven presidents of state labor groups in the Midwest, affiliated with the AFL-CIO are meeting in Chicago to talk about the ...
Manpower Incorporated spokesperson Karen Miller says the state of Iowa has one of the best third quarter employment outlooks ...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad unveiled a new worker training program called the Skilled Iowa Initiative.About a dozen business...
University of Nebraska regents approved extending employee benefits to same sex partners. Helen Moore told regents that she&#...
A legislative committee got an update this week on the state’s retirement system. Investment Officer Matt Clark said th...
The State of Iowa will increase the maximum benefit paid for unemployment at the start of the new fiscal year on July first. ...
A quarterly survey on the plans of some of Iowa's top business leaders shows optimism for the remaining months of this ye...
State labor officials say Iowa has an abundance of good-paying jobs in a wide range of professions and too few workers traine...
The unemployment rate in Iowa has gone down every month since October of last year, but the drops are not big ones and an Iow...
A state audit questions the expense of Nebraska's state employee health plan. State Auditor Mike Foley says the health in...
The closure of the three BPI plants on May 25 will have a negative economic impact on the region. A study from Iowa State Uni...
South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels is slowly moving into part time duties. He announced the transition from full t...
The South Dakota Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council met this week to get an update on the financial status of the trust ...
The South Dakota State Employees Organization held their House of Delegates meeting this past weekend in Pierre. Executive Di...
One of the keystone legislative bills for Governor Dennis Daugaard this year was his “WINS” or workforce initiati...
The unemployment rate for South Dakota in March held steady at four point three percent, about half the national rate.State D...
One of the major legislative initiatives of South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugard was his “WINS” program, or work ...
South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels will move his duties to a part time basis. Michels had been working full time s...
Delta Airlines has informed Sioux City officials it will close its reservation center there on August 31st as part of a corpo...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard says the WINS program passed by the 2012 legislature is moving ahead, helping people fi...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard says the WINS program passed by the 2012 legislature is moving ahead, helping people fi...
Yankton City Manager Doug Russell is still in the running to be hired as the new city manager in Kalispell Montana. At the me...
The fate of the federal health care reform legislation is in the hands of the US Supreme Court following oral arguments last ...
The new survey of business leaders and supply managers in nine Midwestern states finds the economy is growing stronger and mo...
Despite the challenge to the health care reform law heard in the US Supreme Court last week, the State of South Dakota contin...
The Yankton School Board will hold another special meeting to issue contracts to teachers for the upcoming school year. The m...
A good chunk of cash will be going out to state employees. Eric Ollila, executive director of the South Dakota State Employee...
A working group at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha has been studying the federal health care law for the p...
The US Supreme Court begins three days of hearings over constitutional questions around the health care reform law passed by ...
South Dakota Senator John Thune and Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas have introduced legislation to prevent the Labor Department...
A Democratic senator at the center of the controversy over Iowa Workforce Development offices that serve unemployed Iowans sa...
Iowa Congressman Tom Latham has introduced legislation to block what he calls the Government’s attack on family youth l...
The Yankton School Board will have to make some big decisions about the health insurance program they offer their employees, ...
Democrats in the Iowa House tried to block legislation they say will weaken the state's ability to investigate child labo...
One of the major legislative initiatives of Governor Dennis Daugaard this session was a workforce improvement plan, called &l...
State employees in South Dakota will see a bonus, and a raise following action by the legislature last week. One of the last ...
Growing the economy this year in the Yankton area will also involve regaining the jobs lost during the recession. The annual ...
Voters in the Yankton School District have again rejected a property tax opt out proposal. The school board was asking for on...
The City of Yankton will sponsor a grant request to the state to speed up job training for welders and CNC machinists. Josh S...
Iowa Senate Democrats have endorsed legislation that would set aside 20-million dollars in state tax money over the next thre...
There are signs of life in the U-S economy. Creighton University economist Dr. Ernie Goss says the unemployment rate continue...
A state employee bonus plan may see some changes this week in Pierre. Lawmakers return with only nine days remaining in the m...
A bill to raise the minimum wage to 10-bucks-an-hour in Iowa cleared an initial hurdle in the Democratically-controlled Senat...
While South Dakota lawmakers continue to move a proposed three percent pay raise for state employees, there is concern much o...
The South Dakota Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a bonus pay plan for state workers, and sent it to the floor. T...
Northern Beef Company officials have moved their project opening date to later this spring. Public Affairs Director Laurie Sw...
The vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City believes the agricultural economy should stay in a growth perio...
A bill increasing the penalties against those who assault doctors and nurses has advanced in the Nebraska Unicameral. Omaha S...
U.S. Labor Department officials Wednesday announced they are re-evaluating the parental portion of their proposed child labor...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has been criticized for waiting to create a state health insurance exchange...but says it doe...
Iowa's unemployment rate fell below six percent in December -- the first time it has been that low since June of 2009. Bu...
The chair of the Economic Growth Committee in the Iowa Senate is trying to rally support for two worker training programs as ...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has proposed a workforce improvement program to help businesses find the employees they...
Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to expand the state’s employment base. It was one of the goals outlined in his State of ...
The plan by Governor Dennis Daugaard to pay bonuses to select teachers is getting a strong reaction. His proposal would pay t...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has announced that the state will not look to set up a health insurance exchange this y...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard has proposed a new workforce initiative plan that he hopes would attract one thousand n...
Job training and placement came up at the Yankton School Board meeting last night. The district has been cooperating with the...
South Dakota state employees would get a five percent bonus under a plan proposed by Governor Dennis Daugaard. A salary incre...
The South Dakota State Employees Organization has hired Eric Ollila as their new executive director.He takes the position for...
Nearly a third of Iowans get some sort of benefit from the state's welfare agency. Chuck Palmer is director of the Iowa Depar...
A new survey shows Iowa business owners are growing more confident about boosting their staffing levels. Kathy Joblinske (joh...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad says the 36 Iowa Workforce Development offices closed in a budget cutting move will not be reope...
Studies that analyze Iowa's advanced manufacturing and information technology industries show mixed results as state official...
Record farm income will push the state economy to buck the national trend, according to the latest report from the Nebraska B...
The 26 states which have filed the lawsuit against the Obama Administration's health care law have asked the Supreme Court to...
