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Unemployment Rates Remain Low in SE Nebraska

By John Nixon

03/28/2016

Nebraska Department of Labor

(KLZA)-- The February unemployment rate in Nebraska remained steady at 3-percent. That is up two-tenths from February, 2015.

In Southeast Nebraska, the February figures were mostly lower.

Pawnee County has the lowest unemployment rate in the area at 2.1 percent for February, down three-tenths.

The highest unemployment rate in the area is in Gage County at 3.8 percent. The Johnson County rate was down slightly to 3.6 percent and Nemaha County had a slight dip in unemployment for the month to 3.4 percent.

The unemployment rates were steady for the month in Richardson and Otoe counties, 3.5 percent in Richardson County and 3.7 percent in Otoe County.

The Nebraska unemployment rate of 3 percent in February was well below the preliminary national unemployment rate of 4.9 percent in February.

New Hampshire and South Dakota have the best unemployment rates in the nation at 2.7 percent, North Dakota is third at 2.9 percent. Nebraska and Colorado are tied for the fourth best rate in the country.

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