(Undated)– Unemployment statistics are in for the month of November.
Richard Running, Director of Iowa Workforce Development, says statewide, the rate was nearly unchanged from October. But in Dickinson county, it was up almost a full percentage point. It went from 1.6 percent in October to 2.4 percent in November. The county’s workforce in November was estimated at 10,090. Of that, Iowa Workforce Development says 240 people were out of work.
Unemployment rates in neighboring counties for November included Clay and Emmet counties at 2.8 percent; Osceola at 2.6 percent; O’Brien at 1.8 percent; and Palo Alto county at 4.5 percent. Pocahontas county posted the highest jobless rate in the region at 4.7 percent.
