ATLANTA — Georgia’s unemployment rate rose slightly last month to 3.3%, up one-tenth of a point from the revised jobless rate of 3.2% the state posted in July, the Georgia Department of Labor reported Thursday.
Still, the state’s August unemployment rate was five-tenths lower than the national jobless rate of 3.8%.
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