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SE Nebraska February unemployment figures

By John Nixon

03/26/2024

Nebraska Department of Labor

(KLZA)-- Nebraska- unemployment rate for February stayed stagnant at 2.5 percent for the sixth straight month, and is up 0.4 percentage points from February 2023′s 2.1 percent, according to the state- Department of Labor.

Locally, Pawnee County has the lowest unemployment rate at 2.5%. Richardson and Otoe counties have jobless rates of 2.7%. In Nemaha County the unemployment rate in February was 2.8%. Gage County was at 3%. Johnson County had the highest unemployment rate in the southeast corner of Nebraska for the month at 4.4%.

Nebraska's 2.5% jobless rate was 5th lowest in the country. North Dakota was #1 at 2%; South Dakota was second at 2.1%. Kansas was tied for 7th with a jobless rate of 2.7%; Iowa was #11 at 2.9%. The unemployment rate in Missouri in February was tied for 21st in the nation at 3.3%.

The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2024 is 3.9 percent, up 0.2 percentage points from the January 2024 rate of 3.7 percent and up 0.3 percentage points from the February 2023 rate of 3.6 percent.

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