A new state report indicates about 11-thousand people were hired by Iowa businesses and governments during the month of June. Cory Kelly is a spokesman for Iowa Workforce Development.
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Iowa’s unemployment rate rose slightly in June, to three-point-two percent, but Kelly says there’s no correlation between the figures on unemployment in the state and the data about job gains in Iowa during June.
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The report indicates Iowa factories added 16-hundred jobs in June.