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Nebraska November jobless rate drops to 3.1 percent

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A newly released report says Nebraska's preliminary unemployment rate for November dropped to 3.1 percent.

The Nebraska Labor Department said in the report released Friday that the rate was six-tenths of a point under the November 2013 rate of 3.7 percent. It was also a slight drop from October's 3.4 percent.

The new Nebraska figure remains well below the preliminary national unemployment rate of 5.8 percent in November. The new national rate remained steady from October and came in at two-tenths of a percentage point below the November 2013 rate of 7 percent.

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