Iowa’s unemployment dropped down to two-point-six percent in July. Iowa Workforce Development spokesman, Cory Kelly, says that’s down from two-point-seven percent in June.
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Kelly says the number of working Iowans is estimated to have increased by 52-hundred in July. Manufacturing led the way in new jobs.
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The state unemployment rate in July of last year was three-point-one (3.1) percent. The U-S unemployment rate was three-point-nine (3.9) percent in July.