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Georgia’s unemployment rate holds steady at 3.6% in March

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Georgia’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% last month, which is six-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate.

The number of jobs in the state rose by 6,900 in March, bringing the total to 4.98 million.

The sector with the most job gains was health care and social assistance, which added 3,100 jobs. The information sector followed, posting an increase of 2,400 jobs.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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