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Job Numbers Grow in Iowa

Job Numbers Grow in Iowa

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State job numbers in Iowa show the unemployment rate for December stayed the same as November at three-point-four percent. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson, Courtney Greene, says good weather played a part in the labor situation…
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The jobs reports says the number of construction jobs in 2016 could drop as a number of big projects come to an end. Overall, the state averaged 21-hundred new jobs each month in 2015. The job gains offset the job loses in the month…
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Workforce Development says the state has gained 25-thousand-600 jobs compared to last year, which allowed the number of unemployed to steadily drop from January of last year when it was at four-point-two percent.