(Des Moines)– Unemployment for the month of March in Clay and Dickinson counties continued to decrease according to latest statistics released Thursday by Iowa Workforce Development.
The report shows Dickinson county had a jobless rate of four percent in March…down from 4.2 percent in February. In Clay county the rate for March was 4.1 percent…compared with 4.3 percent in February.
The trend was pretty much the same in neighboring counties…including Emmet county where the rate went from six and-a-half percent in February to 5.8 percent in March. Osceola county actually saw small INCREASE in it jobless rate…going from 3.7 percent in February to 3.8 percent last month. O’Brien county posted a decline…going from 3.8 percent in February to three and-a-half percent in March. And Palo Alto county’s jobless rate INCREASED in March from February. It went from 3.6 percent to 3.9 percent in March.
