Thursday, April 26, 2012
The rate for county residents a year earlier was 8.3 percent.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Cherokee County’s unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent in March, according to preliminary figures announced today by the Georgia Department of Labor. The jobless rate for Cherokee residents improved from 7.6 percent in February and January and 8.3 percent in March 2011. The gains in Cherokee paralleled wider trends: The state and national rates are adjusted for seasonal factors; the regional and local rates are not. The state Labor Department attributed the Atlanta-area improvements to fewer layoffs in construction, manufacturing, trade, and administrative and support services. The statewide gains the past year came in professional and business services, trade and transportation, education and health services, manufacturing, and leisure …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
More than 500 additional county residents were working in February than in January.
The number of Cherokee County residents with jobs grew by more than 500 in February to 105,032, according to preliminary figures released today by the Georgia Department of Labor. The unemployment rate for the county was unchanged from January’s 7.6 percent because the Cherokee labor force grew by more than 560 people to 113,685. But compared with a year earlier, the Cherokee jobless rate has dropped a full point while the county has gained more than 1,800 people in the labor pool. Cherokee is one of 20 Georgia counties with unemployment rates below 9 percent. Its February rate was lower than the national rate of 8.3 percent, unchanged from January, and the state rate of 9.1 percent, down from 9.2 percent in January. For the 28-county …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The January figure is higher than the final December number but lower than the original rate reported for that month and well below January 2011.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Cherokee County’s unemployment rate rose in January but wound up lower than the rate originally reported for December. The January jobless rate for the county was 7.6 percent, according to preliminary figures the Georgia Department of Labor released today, up from 7.4 percent in December. The preliminary rate for December was 7.9 percent, but it turns out 2011 was even better for Cherokee employment than initially thought. The Labor Department revised the December figure down a half-point. Along with the usual refinements that can move the percentage by one or two tenths of a point, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state agency just conducted an annual benchmarking to improve the job data’s accuracy. Because the local job …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
More county residents were working in December, but the unemployment rate still increased slightly.
Cherokee County ended 2011 with an improving jobs picture despite a slight rise in the unemployment rate in December. Almost 2,200 more Cherokee residents had jobs when 2011 ended than when 2010 closed, according to preliminary figures the state Department of Labor reported today. A total of 100,519 people were working, while 8,654 people 16 and older were looking for jobs. That means 90 more people were working at the end of December than in November even though the county’s jobless rate rose to 7.9 percent last month from 7.7 percent in November because the workforce grew. But the more important comparison is to a year ago, and the county’s rate fell 0.8 percentage point from 8.7 percent in December 2010. The local figures are not …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Are you out of work, or do you know somebody who is? Learn from a Georgia Department of Labor panel of experts how to move forward.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Join the Georgia Department of Labor's live chat on "Surviving a Layoff" in the CoverItLive blog above as people in Holly Springs and Hickory Flat deal with 7.7 percent unemployment in Cherokee County. The chat comes about 12 hours before the Labor Department announces the December unemployment figures for cities and counties and 24 hours before Chattahoochee Tech holds a panel discussion on training Georgia’s workforce of the future. Come back to Holly Springs-Hickory Flat Patch at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for that live chat. After either chat, you can replay previous chat sessions on the department’s website. Previous sessions covered:
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The county added more than 500 jobs in October, the state Labor Department says.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Cherokee County’s unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in October, according to preliminary figures from the Georgia Department of Labor. The rate dropped from 8.7 percent in September and from 8.6 percent in October 2010. The local numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors. Cherokee County’s good job news paralleled the improvement for the official metro Atlanta area, where the October rate was 9.9 percent, down from 10.2 percent in September and in October 2010. Cherokee’s rate also remains lower than the seasonally adjusted state and national unemployment rates. For Georgia, the rate was 10.2 percent in October, down from 10.3 percent in September and in October 2010. Nationwide, the number was an even 9 percent in October, …
