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RADIO IOWA – Unemployment claims are down for the third straight week. Iowa Workforce Development says the number of ongoing unemployment claims dropped by 5,072 in the last week — and are down by nearly 30,000 claims in the last three weeks. Ongoing claims have dropped by nearly 85,000 since peaking in the second week of May. First-time unemployment claims dropped around 200 last week to 6,765.
