(KLZA)-- Unemployment rates improved in all extreme Southeast Nebraska counties during the month of April.
Johnson and Richardson counties had the largest dips in unemployment rates, 7-tenths for Johnson County and 5-tenths in Richardson County.
Pawnee County had the best unemployment rate in the area at 2.2 percent, which is down 4-tenths.
Elsewhere, Richardson County unemployment rate in April was 2.6 percent;. Nemaha County 3.1 percent, Gage 3.2 percent, Otoe 2.9 percent; and Johnson, 2.6 percent.
Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 2.5 percent, while
Nevada has the highest at 7.1 percent.
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