Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased slightly to 2-point-9 percent in August, ending a 4-month stint at 2-point-8 percent.
Driven primarily by retirements, the state’s labor force participation rate fell to 66-point-3 percent from 66-point-4 percent in July.
The number of unemployed Iowans increased to 48,400 in August from 47,600 in July.
The total number of working Iowans fell to 1,635,400 in August. This figure is 24-hundred lower than July and 20,300 lower than one year ago.
