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Nebraska Department of Labor
(KLZA)-- Nebraska had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for the month of October at 3 percent. That was down from 3.6 percent in September.
Locally unemployment figures were mostly lower for the month.
In Richardson county the unemployment rate was 2.1 percent; Pawnee and Nemaha counties had jobless rates of 2 percent. In Johnson County the unemployment rate was 2.5 percent.
The Otoe County figure was 2.3 percent. Gage County had an unemployment figure of 2.5 percent, up two-tenths, making it the only county with a jobless rate higher than in September.
Nebraska's unemployment figure is less than half the national rate of 6.9 percent.
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