The unemployment amount in busline Atlanta added hardly to 8.0 percent in August, according to activity force estimates appear Thursday morning by the Georgia Department of Labor.
The July abandoned amount was 7.9 percent, up from 7.6 in June. The busline amount in May was 7.3 percent. The amount in August 2013 was 7.9 percent.
Fulton County's unemployment amount added from 8.7 to 8.9 percent amid July and August. The county's unemployment amount was at 8.7 percent this time aftermost year. 5,454 beneath Fulton County citizens were in the workforce in August compared to July, and 484 added association were out of assignment in August than in July.
In the breadth of Fulton County central Atlanta burghal banned , the unemployment amount jumped from 10.4 to 10.6 percent amid July and August. In August of 2013, Fulton's inside-the-perimeter unemployment amount was at 10.4 percent. 2,168 Atlantans larboard the workforce amid July and August of this year, and 92 association absent their jobs during the aforementioned time period.
In July, busline Athens had the everyman breadth abandoned amount in Georgia at 6.4 percent, while busline Dalton had the accomplished amount at 10.7 percent.
Paradoxically, although the unemployment amount added in the busline Atlanta area, the cardinal of jobs amid July and August added by 5,900 to 2,470,660. Most of the new jobs were created in accompaniment and bounded government, clandestine apprenticeship and bloom services, manufacturing, and construction.
Additionally, aboriginal time unemployment claims alone 22.9 percent during the aforementioned stretch. Back August 2013, 51,400 jobs accept been created in the busline Atlanta area, the second-best over-the-year job advance amount back 2007. The top job-creating acreage over the accomplished 12 months in the busline Atlanta breadth has been in able and business services, with 17,600 new jobs in the area back this time aftermost year.
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