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(Atlanta)- The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that the preliminary unemployment rate for August in White County was 4.5 percent down one tenth of a percentage point from the 4.6 percent revised rate in July.
The labor department said the labor force in the county in August was 14,348, of those 13,709 were employed, while 639 were unemployed.
The rate in the Georgia Mountains region in August was 4.6 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 4.8 percent in July. The rate fell as employers laid off fewer workers.
Most of the decrease came in manufacturing and administrative and support services, which includes temporary staffing agencies.
Unemployment Rate 4.5 Percent In August
