ATLANTA - Metro Gainesville's jobless rate is up again, and for the first time in a long, long time, the rate is up in every county in the 13-county Georgia Mountains Region.
The rate is up one-tenth of a percent, to 4.4 percent.
That means the unemployment rate in Hall County has gone up almost half-a-percent since December.
State labor commissioner Michael Thurmand says Georgia's job growth is just not keeping pace with the labor force, causing continued weakness in the state job market.
Elsewhere in the region, where the jobless rate is up, on average, two-tenths of a percent to 4.3 percent:
Barrow 4.7 percent, up .4 percent
Banks 3.8, up .1
Dawson 4.1, up .2
Forsyth 3.4, up .1
Habersham 4.1, up .4
Jackson 4.5, up .1
Lumpkin 4.5, up .3
Rabun 4.7, up .2
Stephens 6.5, up .4
Towns 3.9, up .3
Union 4.3, up .3
White 4.4, up .1
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April 4th, 2025
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