Idaho unemployment drops to 2.9% in August, a 10-year low

Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 10 years in August, dropping to 2.9 percent. That’s a tenth of a percentage point lower than July, and matches the state’s record low from June of 2007. It also was the sixth consecutive monthly decrease in the state’s unemployment rate, according to the Idaho Department of Labor.

Nationally, unemployment was at 4.4 percent in August, up a tenth from July.