(Radio Iowa) – The December unemployment rate moved up one tenth of a percent to three-point-two percent. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says that comes as more people were looking for jobs.

Townsend says some of the job gains were offset by loses.

She says overall the positive news outweighed the negative.

Townsend says there’s always a stop in February and the next unemployment numbers won’t come out until March.

The U-S unemployment rate decreased to four-point-one (4.1) percent in December.