(KLZA)--Nebraska’s unemployment rate has remained unchanged for the last eight months.
The unemployment rate in December was 3% according to the Nebraska Department of Labor.  Currently, Nebraska stands alone at 6th in the nation in unemployment. 
Locally, unemployment dipped half a percentage point in Richardson County during December to 2.7%.  In Johnson County unemployment went up a full percentage point in December to 3.9%.
Elsewhere the jobless rates were 3% in Pawnee County,  up 3-tenths of a percent;  3.2% in Nemaha County which was unchanged.  In Otoe County the December unemployment rate was 3%, up a tenth of a point, and in Gage County, the rate was steady at 3 percent.