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Unemployment Rate Increases Again In December

November 23, 2014

(Des Moines)– Iowa’s jobless rate posted another increase in December.

Officials with Iowa Workforce Development say the December unemployment rate increased to three-point-five percent…up from three-point-four percent in November. Most of the reductions took place in the manufacturing, retail and service sectors.

Locally, the December unemployment rate in Dickinson county stood at two-point-nine percent…up from two-point-four percent in November.

December unemployment rates in neighboring counties included Clay county at three-point-two percent; Emmet three-point-seven percent; Osceola county at two-point-six percent; O’Brien county at two-point-one percent and Palo Alto county at three-point-two percent.