Georgia Mountains Unemployment Rate Drops Again in April

Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Georgia Mountains saw a decrease in its unemployment rate for April.

“We had another strong month in April,” said Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler. “We saw the unemployment rate decrease in every region and county, along with an over the month and over the year decrease in initial claims for nearly every region and country.”

In Georgia Mountains, the unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points, bringing the rate to 2.7 percent. A year ago, the rate was 10.5 percent.

The labor force decreased in April by 1,615. The March total was 356,282. That number is up by 16,440 from the total from April 2020.

Georgia Mountains ended April with 346,808 employed residents. The number decreased by 1,006 in April and was up 42,628 as compared to last year.

Initial claims for unemployment decreased by 3 percent in April. When compared to last April, claims were down by about 93 percent.

In Franklin County, the unemployment rate for April stayed the same at 3.8% with 9,562 people employed out of a total workforce of 9,943.

That’s down from March when the GDOL said the labor force was 10,133 with 9,751 employed.

In Hart County, the April unemployment rate was down slightly to 3.8% from 3.9% in March.

Hart County’s labor force last month was 11,597 and of that, 11,160 were employed.

The GDOL’s online job listing service at employgeorgia.com showed 4,707 active job postings in Georgia Mountains for April.

 

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