(KLZA)-- Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the country at at two-percent, which is the lowest unemployment figure in state history.  Records have been kept since 1976.

The state labor force participation rate held steady with the August rate of 68.4 percent.

In Southeast Nebraska,  jobless figures all declined for the month of September. 

The lowest unemployment rate was in Pawnee County at 1.2 percent,  down three-tenths.  

Richardson, Nemaha, Gage and Otoe counties all had jobless rates of 1.3 percent for September all decreasing at least four – tenths of a percent. 

The highest unemployment rate in the area was in Johnson County, but just at 1.6 percent.