(Cleveland)- The latest unemployment figures released Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor has White County’s rate in July at 4.4 percent. That is down four-tenths of a percent from the revised June rate.
White County has the lowest unemployment rate for all of Northeast Georgia.
In July the labor force was 16,398, of those 15,674 were employed while 724 were unemployed. One year ago the rate was 2.9 percent. In Georgia Mountains, the unemployment rate decreased in July as well to 5.5 percent, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points
Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said, “the numbers that we really need to focus on are the most important ones, such as increases in workforce and employment which we are continuing to see in almost all regions and counties.”
