(KLZA)-- Nebraska recorded the states lowest ever monthly unemployment figure in August at 2.2 percent, down a tenth of a point from July.

In Southeast Nebraska the unemployment figures continued to fall during the month. 

Pawnee County had the lowest jobless rate in the area at 1.5 percent.
In Richardson County the unemployment rate dipped four-tenths of a percent in August to 1.7 percent.

1.8 percent was the unemployment rate in Nemaha, Gage and Otoe counties with Johnson County having the highest unemployment rate in the area at 2 percent for August.