(Radio Iowa) – The state unemployment rate increased slightly in May as more people entered the job market. The rate bumped up to three-point-nine percent in May from the three-point-eight percent in April. Iowa Workforce Development says the total number of Iowans in the workforce increased by 65-hundred, while the number of people with a job increased by five-thousand in May.

The unemployment rate one year ago in May during the height of the pandemic was eight-point-three percent.