Workforce participation, unemployment both up in December

The December unemployment rate moved up one tenth of a percent to 3.2%. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says that comes as more people were looking for jobs. “The good news is that our labor force participation rate went up for the second month in a row,” she says. “It was primarily driven by […]

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