DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s unemployment rate has inched upward, hitting 5.2 percent in June.
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State labor officials say the rate was a tenth of a point higher than May’s 5.1 percent. The rate was 6 percent in June last year.
Iowa Workforce Development says in a report issued Friday that the state lost 2,400 jobs in total nonfarm employment last month, primarily because of drops in local government employment.
The sector gain came in professional and business services, with 3,000 more jobs.
The number of unemployed people in Iowa was estimated at 85,600 in June, compared with 85,000 in May. A year ago, there were more than 100,300 unemployed in Iowa.
The national jobless rate remained 8.2 percent in June.
