The State Labor Department reports Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for September of this year is 2.1 percent, seasonally adjusted.
The rate is up 0.1 percentage points from the August 2023 rate of 2.0 percent and is down 0.5 percentage points from the September 2022 rate of 2.6 percent.
The Nebraska Department of Labor's Brandon Jones says no job sector went down significantly over the month.
He says top gainers over the month were manufacturing, private education, health services, trade, transportation, and utilities.
The Labor Department says the numbers have Nebraska with the sixth lowest September unemployment rate in the U.S.
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