Iowa’s unemployment rate remained at 2.5% in September.
Ryan West, the Deputy Director of Iowa Workforce Development, says the rate didn’t change for the third staright month:
OC………..two and a half per cent area. ;08.
West says the number of people with jobs increased:
OC………….that are open. :09
And that offset the number of Iowans without jobs, that also went up:
OC…………level of 40,000. :11
Iowa’s unemployment rate was tied for the second lowest in the country, along with New Hampshire and North Dakota.
Vermont has the lowest rate, at 2.2%.
