Unemployment in metropolitan Dalton declined by 0.5 percent last month but remained above levels from a year ago, the Georgia Department of Labor reported today.
December’s jobless rate in the Dalton area was 12.7 percent, down from 13.2 percent in November but still up from the 12.5 percent jobless rate of a year earlier.
Dalton ended 2010 with the highest unemployment rate among Georgia’s 14 metropolitan areas.
Over the past year, the number of Dalton area residents on the job bell by 1,658 persons, state records show.
Statewide, Georgia’s jobless rate in December was 10.2 percent, up from 10 percent in November.
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