ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate rose slightly last month to 3.2% after holding steady at 3.1% for the previous nine months, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.
Still, the Peach State’s jobless rate in May was half a percentage point lower than the national unemployment rate of 3.7%
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