Monday, January 28, 2013
Paulding's nearly 6,000 unemployed residents drove the county's jobless rate up in December, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.
More than 74,000 people are in Paulding County's labor force—but almost 6,000 of them were unemployed last month. The county had a December 2012 unemployment rate of 8 percent, a jump of half a percent in one month. Last month's unemployment rate is halfway between the November 2012 (7.5 percent) and December 2011 rates (8.5 percent). County Rate Forsyth 6.5% Cherokee 6.9 Cobb 7.6 Paulding 8.0 Bartow 8.6 Douglas 8.8 Fulton 9.3 A look at other nearby counties' numbers: Forsyth County – 6.5% Forsyth County's unemployment rate of 6.5 percent in December 2012 was only beaten by tiny Harris County's 6.2 percent, which has 76,000 fewer people in the …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The metro Atlanta area, of which Paulding is a part, saw 33,700 more jobs in October versus the same month in 2011.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.7 percent in October, down from 9 percent in September. The jobless rate was 9.7 percent in October 2011. “The unemployment rate dropped because we had an increase of 36,000 new jobs, which is the largest September to October job increase ever,” State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said in a news release. “That job growth pushed the number of jobs in October to the highest level in any month since December of 2008.” Statewide, there were 3,971,700 jobs in October, up 0.9 percent, from 3,935,700 in September. The growth came in retail trade, up 8,000; education and health care, up 7,000; professional and business services…
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Initial numbers show better jobless numbers for the county versus the Northwest Georgia area.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Paulding County showed positive movement on the jobs front Thursday. The Georgia Department of Labor announced early Thursday that the preliminary unemployment rate in the Northwest Georgia area declined to 8.8 percent in September, down five-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 9.3 percent in August. The rate was 10.3 percent in September 2011. According to a GDOL news release, Northwest Georgia’s rate declined primarily because the number of unemployed people decreased by 1,843. Also, the number of employed people increased by 5,326. Thursday’s numbers have Paulding County showing a preliminary unemployment rate of 8 percent, down from August’s preliminary rate of 8.3 percent. Paulding’s initial numbers bested not just the …
Friday, December 23, 2011
Almost 600 more people who live in the county gained jobs in November.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
The unemployment news for November was excellent for Georgia and the Atlanta area; it was even better for Paulding County. 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 October’s rate at 10 percent but revised the number downward, just as it revised the September figure from 10.3 percent to 10.2 percent. The local numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors. But they do reflect real job growth. 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 …
