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Nebraska Department of Labor
(KLZA)-- Unemployment rates were slightly higher in four of six counties in extreme Southeast Nebraska in October.
The jobless rate was up in Richardson, Pawnee, Johnson and Gage counties while dipping slightly in Nemaha and Otoe counties.
Gage County had the highest unemployment rate at 3.5 percent, Johnson and Otoe County had an unemployment rate of 3.4 percent.
In Nemaha County the jobless rate was down 2-tenths to 3.3 percent. Pawnee County had an increase in unemployment from 2 percent to 2.5%.
The Richardson County rate was 3.1 percent.
Statewide in October the jobless rate inched up a tenth of a point to 3.3 percent. The national jobless rate is 4.9 percent, which dropped one-tenth of a point from September.
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