3/26/15
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Atlanta)- New unemployment figures released Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor shows White County’s preliminary unemployment rate for February was 5.9 percent, that’s up one tenth of a percent from the revised January rate of 5.8 percent.
The labor department said in February the labor force in White County was 13,724, of those 12,914 were employed while 810 were unemployed. One year ago the rate was 6.9 percent.
Georgia Mountains’ unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.5 percent in February
