The state unemployment rate fell to three-point-five percent in December-while the local unemployment rates rose from November to December
The rate is down from three-point-seven percent in November, as Iowa Workforce Development reports the number of unemployed dropped by 38-hundred compared to November, and the number of working Iowans was up 52-hundred. It is the fifth straight drop in unemployment since July. I-W-D says the state added jobs in each of the last four months of 2021 — ending the year with a total nonfarm employment increase of more than 41-thousand jobs. (41,200 jobs).
The agency data for December in Clinton County showed an unemployment rate of 3.9 percent. That’s up from November’s 3.5 percent rate – but down from December 2020 when it was five percent.
In Clinton the unemployment rate was 4 percent in December and that’s an increase from November’s 3.8 percent unemployment rate.
Local data HERE
