Statewide Iowa — The number of new state unemployment claims in the last week remained high, but did drop from the previous week.
The US Labor Department says new claims for the week of April 5th through the 11th were 43-thousand-862. That’s down from more than 67-thousand first-time claims filed in the previous week.
The health care and social services industries had more than 67-hundred new claims, and manufacturing had just over six-thousand. The retail trade combined with food service and hotels had more than 10-thousand new claims. The report says there were 128-thousand continuing unemployment claims.
