Even with sliding oil prices, Midland boasts the lowest metro jobless rate in the country. Bloomberg Midland, Texas, a symbol of the American oil boom that has recent run into shaky ground, still has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at just 2.6% in January, according to figures from the Labor Department published Friday. The Texan oil town was followed by Lincoln, Neb., a consistently stable employer, at 2.8%. That’s the same jobless rate as that of the state of North Dakota, also at the center of the energy sector’s expansion and still the lowest rate of any state in the nation , a separate report recently showed. Oil prices have plunged by more than 50% in the last eight months, raising concerns about the financial condition of some energy producers and refiners. In contrast, El Centro, Calif., has […]