Continuing unemployment claims now down 8 weeks
September 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson
(Radio Iowa) – The number of ongoing unemployment claims have dropped for the eighth straight week. Iowa Workforce Development reports ongoing claims dropped by four-thousand-233 in the last week. Continuing claims are now just under 72-thousand — which is well below the 189-thousand peak 19 weeks ago in May.
The drop came despite an increase of nearly 57-hundred first-time unemployment claims last week.