ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has declined for the third straight month in December, to 9.7 percent, state labor officials said Thursday.
The new number is a one-tenth of a percentage point decline from a revised 9.8 percent in November, Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said. He said that makes this the largest two-month decrease in unemployment since 1977.
The jobless rate was 10.4 percent in December a year ago.
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