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Nebraskas unemployment rate was 2.5% in November, while Lincolns was 2.1%. Both of those rates are higher than they were a month ago and a year ago.

The unemployment rate rose to 2.4% in October, up from 2.2% in September and the same as it was a year ago.

The U.S. Department of Labor filed a suit against a Killeen newspaper after it terminated an employee who complained of an insect infestation, according to a release from the DOL.

The website, NEworks.nebraska.gov, had been offline since June 26 after a cyberattack on the vendor that runs the system, Geographic Solutions Inc.

Geographic Solutions restores unemployment benefit platforms in three states. The vendor expects all state workforce systems to be back online by the end of this week.

Geographic Solutions restores unemployment benefit platforms in three states. The vendor expects all state workforce systems to be back online by the end of this week.

Nebraskas unemployment website, NEworks, is back online following an outage impacting the sites vendor, Geographic Solutions Inc. 

The April rate of 1.9% was tied for lowest in the nation.

On Friday, the department announced that the state's preliminary unemployment rate for March is 2.0%. The rate is down by 0.1% from February and 0.6% from last March, according to the department. 

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