Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped to 2.8 percent in March, while the U.S. unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson Cory Kelly says Iowa continues to have one of the lowest jobless rates in the country.
Iowa’s unemployment rate, over the previous three months, had held at 2.9 percent. The state’s jobless rate was 3.3 percent one year ago.
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Kelly says there were 600 fewer unemployed Iowans in March compared to February.
The total number of working Iowans in March stood at over one point six million. (1,626,100.)
