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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.
Nebraska's unemployment website, NEworks, is back online following an outage impacting the site's 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.
In the Essay division, Second place went to Maggie Haesler, Mullen High School.