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GDOL: April jobless rate for Gainesville drops to 2.5%

By AccessWDUN Staff
Posted 6:53AM on Thursday 27th May 2021 ( 2 years ago )

With the coronavirus pandemic loosening its grip a bit on Georgia, the unemployment picture continues to improve statewide, and that includes the Gainesville metro area. 

In a report issued Thursday morning, Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said the April unemployment rate for Gainesville-Hall County was 2.5%. In April 2020, the rate was 10.4%.

"We had another strong month in April," Butler said. “We saw the unemployment rate decrease in almost every MSA, along with an over the month and over the year decrease in initial claims for every MSA.”   

Butler also released the following statistics about the Gainesville metro's employment picture for April:

Employ Georgia, the GDOL’s online job listing service at employgeorgia.com showed about 2,026 active job postings in metro Gainesville for April.

 

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