ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor says the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 10.4 percent in April. That’s down one-tenth of a point from March.
It’s the 31st consecutive month Georgia has exceeded the national rate, which is 9.9 percent. A year earlier, Georgia’s rate was 9.2 percent.
The department says the number of payroll jobs in April increased 26,900, or seven-tenths of a point, from 3,794,700 in March to 3,821,600.
Labor Department figures show there were 215,100 long-term unemployed Georgians in April, an increase of 10,400, or 5.1 percent from 204,700 long-term unemployed in March.
The long-term unemployed account for 43.1 percent of the 489,010 jobless in Georgia.