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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