11/28/14

Ga Dept of Labor(ATLANTA) – The Georgia Department of Labor has announced  that the preliminary unemployment rate in White County in October was 6.4 percent, that’s down two tenths of a percent from the revised September rate of  6.6 percent.  

The labor department force said that the labor force in October in the county was 13,446, of those 12,590 had jobs and 856 were unemployed. 

The Georgia Mountains region unemployment rate  for October was 6.0 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 6.2 percent in September. The rate in October of last year was 6.6 percent.  

According to the labor department, the rate fell as more people went to work and there were fewer new layoffs.