Statewide Iowa (RI) — The unemployment rate for February stayed the same as January at three point three percent.
Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says there were some ups and downs in the job market.
Townsend says on the positive side there was an increase of 500 jobs in manufacturing, primarily in food production and animal processing.
Federal officials always do revision of labor numbers at the start of the year, and that revision included an increase in the number of Iowans in the workforce for January. Townsend says that number also stayed the same in February. She says Iowa labor situation is doing okay right now.
The 3.3% unemployment rate in February is up from 2.7% one year ago. The US unemployment rate increased to 4.1% in February.
The latest county-by-county numbers are those for January. O’Brien County unemployment was at 3.0 percent. Sioux County was at 2.9, Osceola at 2.5, and Lyon at 3.3 percent. Those numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
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