(KLZA)--Nebraska unemployment was up a tenth of a percentage point in June to 2.6%. The jobless rate had been 2.5% every month since September, 2023.
A year earlier the states unemployment rate was 2.2%.
Nebraska ranks fifth in the country in unemployment and well below the national unemployment rate of 4.1%.
Locally, Pawnee County has the lowest unemployment rate in the area at 2.5%. Otoe County was next at 3.2%. Gage County had 3.3% unemployment; Johnson County was at 3.5%, Richardson County was at 3.7% with the highest jobless rate in the area being in Nemaha County at 4.1%.
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