The Nebraska Department of Labor announced Friday that Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for July 2022 is 2.0 percent. The rate is up 0.1 percent from the June 2022 rate and is down 0.5 percentage points from the July 2021 rate of 2.5 percent. Nebraska’s July rate is the second lowest rate in the country behind Minnesota.
“The manufacturing industry in Nebraska has been showing strong growth, adding 2,733 jobs over the year,” says Commissioner of Labor John H. Albin. “With employment at nearly 103,000, this is the largest employment number since January of 2003.”
Over one million Nebraskans have been employed since August of 2020. The counts of employed and unemployed in the labor force are based on a survey conducted by the Census Bureau regarding employment status.
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