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Nebraska Department of Labor
(KLZA)-- Unemployment figures dipped significantly in Southeast Nebraska during the month of March.
The jobless figures in the area dropped from a half-a-percentage point to nine-tenths for the month.
Pawnee County has the lowest unemployment rate in the six-county region at just two percent.
The Richardson County unemployment figure was down to 2.6 percent, Nemaha County, Nebraska had a 2.2 percent unemployment rate. Johnson County was at 3.5 percent unemployment with Otoe County at 2.5 percent and Gage County at 2.8 percent.
Statewide the jobless rate dropped two-tenths to 2.9 percent in March which puts Nebraska in a tie with South Dakota, Utah and Vermont for the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Nationwide for March the unemployment rate was six percent.
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