(Radio Iowa) – The unemployment in Iowa rate fell to three-point-five percent in December. The rate is down from three-point-seven percent in November, as Iowa Workforce Development reports the number of unemployed dropped by 38-hundred compared to November, and the number of working Iowans was up 52-hundred.

It is the fifth straight drop in unemployment since July. I-W-D says the state added jobs in each of the last four months of 2021 — ending the year with a total non-farm employment increase of more than 41-thousand jobs. (41,200 jobs).