Unemployment is up slightly in the Athens area.
According to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Labor, the county’s unemployment rate in March was 3.2 percent, up one-tenth of one percent from February and up three-tenths of a percent from March 2022.
Athens ended March with 101,100 jobs, an all-time high. That number increased by 900 from February to March and increased by 5,300 when compared to this time last year.
