Posted December 21, 2016 08:58am
(KLZA)-- Unemployment figures for the month of November were mixed in extreme Southeast Nebraska counties.
Pawnee County had a November unemployment rate of 1.9 percent, down six-tenths from October.
Nemaha County had an increase in unemployment of four-tenths to 3.7 percent. The Johnson County unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.4 percent.
Unemployment in Richardson County was up two-tenths to 3.3 percent and the Otoe County jobless rate was up a tenth to 3.5 percent.
In Gage County the unemployment rate dipped four-tenths to 3.1 percent in November.
Statewide the unemployment rate in November was 3.4 percent. Up a tenth from October and up four-tenths from November, 2015.