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SE Neb Unemployment Figures Released

By John Nixon

04/25/2016

Nebraska Department of Labor

(KLZA)-- Unemployment figures were lower in most southeast Nebraska counties during March.

Nemaha County was the only area county to see an increase in unemployment for the month, up 3-tenths of a percent to 3.6 percent.

Pawnee County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the region at 2-percent. Elsewhere unemployment figures were 3.4 percent in Richardson County, 3.2 percent in Johnson County, 3.4 percent in Otoe and 3.5 percent in Gage County.

Statewide the March unemployment rate is 3 percent, unchanged from February but up from 2.8 percent in March of 2015.

South Dakota has the best unemployment rate in that nation at 2.5 percent; New Hamshire is second at 2.6 followed by Colorado at 2.9 percent then Nebraska.

Iowa is ranked 11th with a 3.8 percent jobless rate, Kansas is 13th at 3.9 percent, Missouri is 16th at 4.2 percent.

Alaska has the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. at 6.6 percent.

In Nebraska, employment in education and health services reached a new high in March.

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