Georgia unemployment
The non-seasonally adjustment jobless rates were:* Catoosa County – 4.9 percent last month, down 0.4 percent* Dade County – 5.4 percent last month, down 0.6 percent* Walker County – 5.4 percent last month, down 0.7 percent* Georgia statewide – 6.7 percent last month, down 0.5 percent* Chattooga County – 7.2 percent last month, down 0.9 percent* Whitfield County – 8.1 percent last month, down 0.5 percent* Murray County – 9.0 percent last month, down 0.5 percentSource: Georgia Department of Labor
The improving economy is cutting unemployment even in Georgia’s hardest hit metropolitan city — Dalton, Ga.
But much of the drop in the jobless rate in the self-described “Carpet Capital of the World” is coming from workers moving elsewhere to find work rather than by just additions from local employers.
The Georgia Department of Labor said Friday that unemployment in metropolitan Dalton fell by another four-tenths of a percent in November to 8.4 percent — the lowest rate since April. The number of Dalton area workers without jobs fell by 280 in November. New layoffs dropped by 172 in Dalton last month.
But those declines came along with a drop in the size of the workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which compiles the data. The Dalton metro area, which includes Whitfield and Murray counties, lost 200 jobs during November and overall employment in the area was 400 jobs less than a year ago. The number of persons in the Dalton workforce declined in November by 699 and fell over the past year by 1,536 workers.