Rabun and Region on the Rise

The Georgia Department of Labor announced last week that the unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region in June was 5.5%, up three-tenths of a percentage point from 5.2% in May. The rate in June 2014 was 6.7%. In line with the regional numbers, Rabun County also saw a very slight uptick in it’s unemployment rate, moving from a revised 6.8% rate in May to a rate of 6.9% for June of this year. The unemployment rate for Rabun County stood at 8.2% in June of 2014.