State unemployment rate lowest in nearly three years
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State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler announced Thursday that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined in January to 9.2 percent, the lowest rate since March of 2009 when it was 9.1 percent. That is a decline of two-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 9.4 percent in December according to the Georgia Department of Labor. The jobless rate was 10.1 percent in January 2011. The rate went down because about 13,000 more Georgians were employed in January than in December. Also, newly revised numbers show that Georgia gained 83,700 jobs in the last 12 months. This is the largest January to January job growth since 2006. “This job growth shows that Georgia is headed in the right direction,” Commissioner Butler said in a …
