ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate remained flat at 3% last month, Bruce Thompson, the state’s new commissioner of labor, reported Thursday.
However, the state set an all-time high for jobs, increasing almost 6,000 from November, while the jobless rate was five-tenths of a percent lower than the national unemployment rate.
Thompson, a Republican, was sworn into office last week, succeeding Mark Butler.
“As we begin our new administration, I am excited to see growth in nearly all [job] sectors such as education, health services, and manufacturing,” Thompson said Thursday. “I am committed to supporting employers across Georgia as they seek to hire.”
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