CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa DOGE task force is recommending ending a program run by the state’s community colleges that helps businesses hire and train new employees.

For more than 40 years, community colleges across the state have run the Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training program , also known as 260E.

“It’s a great method of helping organizations like ours here in the state to develop and maintain top-flight talent,” said Aaron Warner, ProCircular CEO.

The program is funded through bonds sold by the colleges.

“The really unique thing about the program is that the bond is then paid off by the withholding income taxes of those new employees. So before that money comes into the state coffers, it goes to paying off that bond,” said Emily Shields, Executive Director for Communit

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