Unemployment down to 3.5% in January

The state unemployment rate in January dropped to 3.5% from 3.7% in December. The number of unemployed Iowans decreased by 2,500 hundred in January — and the current estimate is 132,800 lower than the COVID-19 peak in April. The number of unemployed is 8,100 more than January one year ago when the unemployment rate was […]