(Undated)– More good news in the latest unemployment numbers issued by the Iowa Workforce Development.
Officials say the state’s monthly unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of a percent in April.
The statewide jobless rate was 3.9 percent, with one million, 556-thousand-400 people out of work. That’s down from the March rate and is also three-tenths of a percent lower than April 2002.
There were significant declines in the local jobless rates as well from March to April. In Dickinson county, the rate went from four percent in March down to 2.4 percent in April; Clay county saw it’s jobless rate go from 4.1 percent in March to 3.1 percent in April; the April unemployment rate in Emmet county was 3.9 percent…down from 5.8 percent in March; O’Brien county saw it’s rate drop from 3.5 percent in March to 2.4 percent last month; the jobless rate for Osceola county went from 3.8 percent in March down to 2.7 percent in April; and in Palo Alto county the unemployment rate dropped a full percentage point…going from 3.9 percent in March to 2.9 percent in April.
