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Iowa Post Secondary Education Student Gets Good Grade

Iowa’s four-year institutions’ performance places the state in the top 10 nationally for completion and retention rates. Iowa’s two-year institutions have a completion rate in the top 10, and its credentials produced per 100 full-time equivalent undergraduates and the percentage of Pell recipients are both above average. Over all, Iowa scored a B on the

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Economic Indicators Continue To Improve

  DES MOINES, IOWA – June 1, 2012.  Expected levels of sales, capital spending, and employment for Iowa’s largest employers have all improved as business leaders express a positive economic outlook for the coming six months.  The 2012Q2 Iowa Business Council (IBC) Overall Economic Outlook Survey Index (OSI) rose to 68.3 – two points higher

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Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber Launches New Online Resource

(06/14/2012, Waterloo, IA) – The Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber announced today the debut of their new business-focused website. The Alliance & Chamber brought the features and related information from multiple economic development and chamber of commerce sites, into one integrated web presence (www.cedarvalleyalliance.com). The Alliance & Chamber’s website serves as a resource for

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University of Northern Iowa Named Northeast Iowa STEM HUB

The new Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, a public-private partnership overarching goal is creating greater student achievement in STEM subjects and a stronger STEM workforce. Six STEM network hubs will work with business, education institutions, nonprofit groups and others in their region in a way that best fits local needs, interests and resources. STEM network hubs

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Grainger Opens Business Center

The opening of the new 41,000/sf center marks a commitment from the company, “This is a Fortune 500 company that’s perennially voted a top company to work for,” said Waterloo Mayor Tim Hurley. “To say ‘yes’ to Waterloo with all their other choices says a lot about our economic development and the area. Parris Devine,

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Target Gets Incentives

Target Corp. has been granted $2.27 million more in state tax credits because it added 199 jobs and invested $50.6 million more than planned in its Cedar Valley Food Distribution Center. Target’s perishable foods distribution center was completed in 2009.  It employs more than 250 people and supplies the company’s stores in Iowa and nearby

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