(KLZA)-- Unemployment rates went up in southeast Nebraska counties during the month of June.
Unemployment rates went up from two-tenths to half a percentage point in June. Nemaha County, Nebraska, has the highest unemployment rate in the area at 4.6 percent, up half a percent.
Pawnee County has the best unemployment rate in the area at 3.2 percent but that rate was also up half a percent for the month.
Richardson, Johnson and Gage counties had an unemployment rate of 3.4 percent. Otoe County was up to 3.6 percent.
Statewide the unemployment rate was steady at 2.9 percent, ranking amongst the best in the country.
The U.S. unemployment rate in June was 4.5 percent in June.
Nonfarm employment is up more than 18,000 from a year ago and up nearly 5,200 jobs from May.
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