Politics & Government

Paulding Unemployment Drops to 9.1%

Almost 600 more people who live in the county gained jobs in November.

The unemployment news for November was excellent for Georgia and the Atlanta area; it was even better for .

The jobless rate in Paulding fell to 9.1 percent in November from 9.9 percent in October and 10.5 percent in November 2010, according to preliminary figures the Georgia Department of Labor released Thursday.

The Labor Department originally reported but revised the number downward, just as it revised the to 10.2 percent.

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The local numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors.

But they do reflect real job growth.

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Almost 600 more Paulding residents had jobs at the end of November than were working a month earlier, and the county added more than 1,400 jobs the past year for its workforce of more than 67,000 people.

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The good county job news matched the improvement for the official metro Atlanta area, where the November rate was 9.2 percent, down from 9.9 percent in October and 10.2 percent in September and 10.3 percent in November 2010. That area covers Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding and Walton counties.

In the overlapping 15-county area covered by the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission—Paulding, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Pickens Polk, Walker and Whitfield counties—the jobless pattern was the same. The rate fell to 9.6 percent in November from 10.4 percent a month earlier and 11 percent a year earlier. The region added nearly 2,800 jobs in November.

The state rate was a seasonally adjusted 9.9 percent in November, down from 10.2 percent in October and 10.4 percent in November 2010. The seasonally adjusted national rate was 8.6 percent in November, compared with 9 percent in October and 9.8 percent in November 2010.

The Atlanta metro area added 13,300 jobs in November, the Labor Department said. Most of those jobs were in private service-related industries, including professional and business services, trade, transportation, warehousing, education, health care and financial services.


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