Iowa businesses boosted their employment last month and Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson Cory Kelly says the jobs improvement in May is the first for the state since February.
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The unemployment rate in May stayed at 3.1 percent for the third straight month. Kelly says Iowa has one of the lowest jobless rates in the country.
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The U.S. unemployment rate in May dropped to 4.3 percent.
The new Workforce Development report shows the number of unemployed Iowans increased to 52,900 in May. The current estimate is 11,200 lower than one year ago. The total number of working Iowans decreased to 1,636,400 in May. That’s 3,400 lower than April and 100 higher than one year ago.
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