Iowa’s unemployment level dropped to two-point-eight percent in December from the two-point-nine recorded in November. Iowa Workforce Development spokesman Cory Kelly says it has been some time since the rate was this low.
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The unemployment rate was three-point-five percent one year ago in December. Workforce Development figures show the number of unemployed Iowans dropped to 47-thousand.
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Kelly says with unemployment this low, employers have a hard time finding qualified workers.
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Iowa’s unemployment rate remains well below the U-S rate, which stayed at four-point-one percent in December for the third straight month.