Another month brought another all-time low for Georgia’s unemployment rate in December, as it dipped to 2.6%.
For the third month in a row, that’s the lowest level since current records began in 1976, falling from 2.8% in November and less than half the 5.3% reported in December 2021.
A record number of people reported having a job in Georgia — more than 5 million. But the state’s labor force barely grew, having been basically flat for months, as employer demand drains the pool of available workers.
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