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Iowa’s March unemployment was 3.7%

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April 16th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa)  – Iowa’s unemployment rate for March was the same as it was in February — three-point-seven percent. The number of Iowans receiving unemployment benefits increased slightly in March, just as the total number of people working in Iowa grew by about 32-hundred.

According to Iowa Workforce Development, the state’s hospitality industry has hired four-thousand people since December, mostly for work in restaurants and hotels.