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Iowa is in the top 10 worst states to work from home If you didnt have to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, consider yourself lucky. I had to work from home back in August for about 3 weeks. At first you think its fun to work in your pajamas on your couch, but really it gets boring very quickly. Some of us in the Quad Cities continue to work from home well over a year after the start of the pandemic. Some people I know really enjoy it, others simply manage. Working from home is easie...

RALEIGH – North Carolina has another accolade to use when recruiting businesses to locate here in these pandemic times: The state ranks No. 2 for “Best Working from Home” in a new study from financial information site WalletHub. That’s important since as WalletHub notes more than 70% of workers continue to telework from home for their jobs. The state, which ranks ninth in terms of population and topped the 2020 list for best business climate by Site Selection magazine, came in just behi...

Better wages. and then the middle class and working class folks will start feeling this recovery. >> lets dig a little deeper whats behind it. while unemployment is down 6.1%, increasingly more of the long-term jobless are dropping out of the workforce. is the unemployment number dropping for bad reasons, in essence? >> that is something we have seen throughout this recovery. but in june, we actually saw a turn around. and that the unemployment rate actually dropped for good reasons. we saw that...