Statewide Iowa — New state unemployment claims were at their lowest level last week since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Iowa Workforce Development says there were 16-thousand-735 new unemployment claims in the first week of May. That is down by almost eight-thousand from the previous week, and it’s the first time the claims have been below 20-thousand in three weeks.
Manufacturing saw the most claims, around four-thousand, while self-employed and independent contractors filed more than 21-hundred claims. New unemployment claims have totaled nearly 288-thousand in the last seven weeks.
