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Iowa Jobless Rate Drops Again

Iowa Jobless Rate Drops Again

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Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped in November to a level not seen in more than a decade. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson, Courtney Greene….
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Greene says a warm November is part of the reason for the drop in the jobless rate….
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Greene says.Construction jobs in the state have increased by 72-hundred since last November, the largest annual increase in any area. That helped push the unemployment rate to a level not seen in some time.
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Greene says the unemployment rate hasn’t been this low since 2001.