Iowa Recovery Seen Slow Hiring Upturn Across State
A survey of Iowa Business Council members shows 45 percent forecast higher sales and 15 percent higher capital spending in coming months, but 60 percent expect no change in employment. Unemployment statewide stood at 6.8 percent in March, with job gains seen in manufacturing and services but a slow overall rebound expected.
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Iowa Business Council
Iowa
Board of Regents
Elliott Smith
Council
Linn County
Johnson County
Ann Wagner
Retailers report February sales rise across multiple sectors
Iowa retailers say February demand strengthens with BMW and Cedar Rapids dealers reporting over 10 percent year over year gains. New car inventories double in Cedar Rapids while overall first quarter sales rise 24 percent with mixed results for used cars and RVs.
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Jeff Simpson
Gina
BMW
Iowa City
Simpson
Mark Zimmerman
Cedar Rapids
First Ave. SE
Ketelsen
Hiawatha
Gary Ketelsen
Billiard & Spa
Branchini
Coralville
Lynn Branchini
United States
Heartland Express
North Liberty
Iowa unemployment claims slow recovery noted by Swenson
Swenson says Iowa’s unemployment claims reflect a slow recovery from the 2001 recession, noting it took five years to regain pre downturn levels and that current gains count as recovery rather than growth. Contact line provided.
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Iowa
Wagner
Dave Swenson
Iowa State University
Swenson
Tornadoes Ravage Mississippi and Louisiana Homes
A destructive storm tore through Louisiana and Mississippi, obliterating homes in Com plex Chemical Co. area and damaging the region. In Yazoo Holmes and Choctaw counties, several fatalities occurred and thousands lost power as crews worked to clear debris. Roy Oswalt headed back to Mississippi after his parents’ home near Weir was damaged.
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Gordon
Diane
Louisiana
Mississippi
Complex Chemical Co
Jerry Melton
Yazoo City
McArthur Straughter
Houston Astros
Roy Oswalt
Weir
Miss
China weighs gradual end to one child rule experts debate
Officials discuss refining or ending the one child policy as China anticipates a shrinking of its working age population. Experts differ on timing with some predicting a gradual dismantling while others warn against rapid change.
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National Population and Family Planning Commission
China
U.S. Census Bureau
Li Xiaoping
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Communist Party
Xie Zhenming
China Population Association
Susan Greenhalgh
University of California-Irvine
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Hoover
Chareby
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