New Unemployment claims increase
July 16th, 2020 by Ric Hanson
(Radio Iowa) – The number of new and continuing unemployment claims both increased in the last week. Iowa Workforce Development says the first-time claims for unemployment hit 11-thousand-125 in the last week. That’s up by just about 12-hundred, and came after the U-S Labor Department adjusted the previously reported number for the prior week down by 741. The number of continuing claims was up by about 28-hundred. And that comes after the Labor Department adjusted the claims for the previous week done by 926. Manufacturing had the most NEW unemployment claims filed last week — with 4, 471.