Iowa’s numbers are out for July and Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says things held steady. https://kiow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2025/08/Unemp-1.wav

Townsend says there are positives when you look deeper into the numbers. https://kiow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2025/08/Unemp-2.wav

Townsend says there were 11,000 more people working this July compared to one year ago. https://kiow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2025/08/Unemp-3.wav

Manufacturing has been one of the sectors taking loses, but Townsend says there was better news there in July. https://kiow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2025/08/Unemp-4.wav

Unemployment had gone up one-tenth of a percent in March, April, May and June. The national unemployment rate increased to 4.2% in July.

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