Unemployment Numbers Continue to Improve in Georgia

The Georgia Department of Labor announced yesterday that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November was 7.2 percent. This is a significant drop from the previously released preliminary rate of 7.7 percent in October, which has been revised to 7.6 percent. The rate in November of last year was also 7.6 percent.

“This is the largest monthly rate decrease we have seen in Georgia going all the way back to 1976,” said State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler. “Our rate continues to trend downward as our state’s employers create new jobs and lay off fewer workers. In fact, we had more jobs in November than we’ve had since the beginning of the Great Recession, and our November-to-November job growth was the largest in nine years.”