Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate seems to be moving in the right direction.
Nine percent of Atlantans were unemployed in February, slightly better than January’s rate of 9.1 percent. It’s not a huge improvement, but one labor economist says there’s reason to be optimistic.
Despite the small month-to-month decrease in Atlanta’s jobless rate, it’s almost a full point lower than where it was a year ago. Tom Smith, a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, says that’s an encouraging sign.
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