Local unemployment data has been released by Iowa Workforce Development, and Marion County’s unemployment rate is on the rise. The rate increased .2% to 4.3%, leaving 720 people out of the county’s nearly 17,000 person workforce unemployed. Thats up 40 people from last month.Statewide the unemployment rate increased .6% to 5.8%. Iowa is still lower than the national unemployment rate of 7.9%.