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The State Department of Labor reports Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for August is 3.0 percent, seasonally adjusted.
The rate is unchanged from July and is a 0.1 percentage point increase from the August 2024 rate.
State Labor Commissioner Katie Thurber says the labor force in Nebraska has continued to grow, led by record high employment in the Omaha metro.
She says August was the second straight month of historically high employment in Omaha at over 525,500.
The labor force includes both employed workers and those who are actively looking for work.
The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for this past August is 4.3 percent, up 0.1 percentage points from the July rate and up 0.1 percent from the August 2024 rate.
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