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County Unemployment Jumps Up
    Jul 1, 2009

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Georgia Department of Labor has reported May's Decatur County unemployment jumped .7% to 11.5% from April's revised 10.8%.  The GDOL has also reported the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped to 9.7% in May, the highest rate ever recorded in Georgia.

Southwest Georgia's unemployment rate rose to 9.1% from April's revised rate of 8.6%.  In our surrounding counties, Baker County jumped 2.7%, Mitchell County .9% while Thomas and Grady Counties jumped .6%.

April's unemployment showed a significant improvement across many counties but May's numbers seemed to indicate April was only an aberration.

SW GA
Counties
Unemployment Rates
May Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Nov Oct Sept Aug July June
Colquitt 8.0% 8.0% 8.0% 8.9% 8.1% 7.3% 6.8% 7.8% 6.4% 6.4% 6.5% 5.9%
Thomas 8.4% 7.8% 7.9% 8.5% 7.7% 6.8% 6.3% 6.4% 6.3% 5.9% 5.8% 5.6%
Miller 8.4% 8.1% 8.3% 8.8% 7.2% 6.4% 7.1% 4.9% 4.6% 5.5% 5.0% 5.0%
Grady 9.0% 8.4% 8.7% 9.5% 9.3% 7.5% 6.9% 6.8% 6.5% 6.0% 6.6% 5.6%
Mitchell 9.2% 8.3% 8.4% 9.1% 8.7% 8.0% 7.4% 7.2% 7.2% 7.6% 7.0% 6.9%
Baker 9.8% 7.1% 7.7% 8.5% 8.0% 7.2% 7.2% 6.5% 6.9% 6.9% 6.0% 6.1%
Early 10.2% 10.0% 10.3% 10.9% 8.7% 8.0% 7.5% 7.8% 7.5% 7.6% 7.0% 6.4%
Seminole 10.3% 9.8% 10.7% 11.5% 9.8% 8.9% 8.9% 7.9% 8.0% 7.7% 8.3% 7.8%
Decatur 11.5% 10.8% 11.5% 12.8% 11.2% 10.1% 10.4% 8.2% 8.0% 7.9% 7.8% 7.3%

State of Georgia Labor Stats





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