After three months at a consistent rate, unemployment in Iowa rose by one-tenth of a percentage point, to 2.6 percent, in October, Iowa Workforce Development said Tuesday.The state’s jobless rate held at 2.5 percent between July and September, and remained stagnant at 2.4 percent the previous year, since July 2018.There were 1,703,400 working Iowans in October — an increase of 9,100 from September and 52,600 from October 2018, said Agency Director Beth Townsend in a news release.