(Cleveland)- White County’s preliminary unemployment rate in July dropped to just below two percent. Figures released today by the Georgia Department of Labor places White County’s unemployment rate at 1.9 percent in July. That compares to the 2.8 percent revised rate in June.
The labor department said the labor force in the county in July was 16,513, of those 16,197 were employed while 316 were unemployed.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said that Georgia Mountain registered an all-time low unemployment rate in July as the number of employed rose more than 4,100.In Georgia Mountain, the unemployment rate was down one percentage point to 2.2 percent over the month. A year ago, the rate was 5.5 percent.
The number of unemployment claims went down by 50 percent in Georgia Mountain in July. When compared to last July, claims were down by about 91 percent.
