Statewide Iowa — (RI) — Iowa Workforce Development reports the state’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at two-point-five percent for August. The state has seen very little change in the rate in the last 14 months. It held at two-point-four percent for 12 straight months until moving up to the current two-point-five percent in July.
Iowa Workforce Development deputy director Ryan West says the number of unemployed did increase by one-thousand in August, but those who had a job increased by 58-hundred.
He says more people are looking for a job now with more opportunities.
He says businesses are still struggling to find workers that have the skills they need.
West says there was one event they thought might make an impacted on employment, but that did not happen.
West says August and September don’t usually see a lot of fluctuations as companies are trying to get a lot of work done before things turn cold — especially in construction. He says you have a lot of options as an employee.
Iowa is tied with New Hampshire for the third lowest unemployment in the country. The U.S. unemployment rate remained at three-point-seven percent in August.
