Iowa’s unemployment rate is rising faster than the national average, according to the delayed figures released on Wednesday by Iowa Workforce Development. The information is based on September’s data, which just became public after getting delayed by the partial federal government shutdown. Iowa’s September unemployment rate stood at 3.7%, which is an increase of 0.4 percentage points from September 2024. Meantime, the U.S. unemployment rate rose from 4.1% to 4.4% over that year period.
