LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says Nebraska’s unemployment rate has remained 3 percent for five months in a row.

The Nebraska Labor Department said in the report issued Friday that the preliminary May rate matched those recorded for January, February, March and April and was a tenth of a point higher than the 2.9 percent reported for May last year.

The new Nebraska rate remained well below the preliminary national unemployment rate of 4.7 percent in May — three-tenths of a point under the 5 percent recorded for April.

The U.S. Labor Department says only South Dakota’s preliminary rate of 2.5 percent and New Hampshire’s 2.7 percent were lower in May than Nebraska’s 3 percent.