More people are without a job in Atlanta, and they aren’t having very much luck when it comes to searching for a new position.
In August, the City of Atlanta had an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent, up from 6.1 percent in July and higher than the national unemployment rate of 6.1 percent. The city had a total non-farm employment of 2,449,800, a decrease of .8 percent from last year, but higher than July’s employment of 2,439,900, according to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In addition to the increase in unemployment, the state as a whole announced last week that in September it had 56,652 workers who had been laid off file first time claims for unemployment insurance benefits. This is an increase of 76.3 percent from last year, according to an article by the Georgia Department of Labor.
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