{"id":724795,"date":"2026-06-25T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724795\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:48:27","slug":"nebraskas-unemployment-data-released-for-may-2026-kcsr-kbpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724795\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska\u2019s Unemployment Data Released for May 2026 \u2013 KCSR \/ KBPY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"pvc_stats_147214\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"147214\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nebraska_Department_of_Labor_Logo_-_No_Tagline-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89612\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nebraska Department of Labor recently released statistics on Nebraska\u2019s employment summary in May 2026. Month over month, this year has shown little change with predominantly positive trends overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although slightly higher than May 2025\u2019s 2.9%, May of 2026 showed Nebraska had 3% unemployment which remained unchanged from April of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May 2025, Nebraska\u2019s total labor force was just over 1,097,000. This past May, that number rose by about 4300 laborers but did decrease by about 1200 compared to April\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the national stage, Nebraska is consistently among the best in regards to low unemployment. May\u2019s results show that stayed true with Nebraska in a three-way tie for fifth with New Hampshire and Alabama also reporting 3% unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nebraska is also 1.3% lower than the national average of 4.3%. South Dakota, Nebraska\u2019s northern neighbor, reported the nation\u2019s lowest unemployment rate at 2.1%. At the opposite end of the national rankings was the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) reporting 6.1% unemployment\u2013highest in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorklife.com\/agent\/nvohlken\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Design-myglyqn-High-Quality (1)\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Design-myglyqn-High-Quality-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1456\" height=\"210\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\"\/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nebraska Department of Labor recently released statistics on Nebraska\u2019s employment summary in May 2026. Month over month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-724795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}