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SE NE unemployment rates climb in July

By John Nixon

08/20/2024

Nebraska Department of Labor

(KLZA)-- Unemployment figures were mostly higher in Southeast Nebraska during the month of July.

Nemaha County was the only area county to have a dip in unemployment from June, dropping from 4.1% to 3.9 percent for July.

Otoe County was steady at 3.2%.

The rest of the area had higher jobless rates in July than in June.

In Richardson County unemployment was up 2-tenths of a percent to 3.9 percent.

In Pawnee County unemployment in July was 3.3 percent, up from 2.5% a month earlier.

Johnson County had a jobless figure of 4.2 percent up 7-tenths.

Gage County had the largest increase in unemployment, nearly doubling from 3.3% in June to 6.4 percent in July.

Statewide the jobless rate in Nebraska increased a tenth of a percent to 2.6 percent in July, ranking 5th in the nation. South Dakota continues to have the best unemployment rate in the country at 2 percent. Vermont is second at 2.1 percent.

In the region, Iowa is tied for 8th at 2.9 percent. Kansas ranked 15th in the nation at 3.2 percent and Missouri was 28th with a 3.8 percent unemployment rate.

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