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Nebraska Department of Labor
(KLZA)-- Nebraska unemployment figures for July matched the states all-time low mark at 2.3 percent.
Nebraska continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Locally, the jobless rates for Southeast Nebraska counties continued to decline.
Pawnee County has a jobless rate of just 1.6 percent. Richardson, Nemaha and Otoe counties had unemployment rates of 2.1 percent in July, Johnson County was at 2.2 percent and Gage County was at 2 percent.
Previously Nebraska had a 2.3 percent jobless rate from April through August in 1990 and from October 1997 until February 1998.
There were 100,700 people working manufacturing jobs in Nebraska during the month of July, that is the highest total since October, 2008.
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