Georgia’s unemployment rate

Republican state.

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Aug. 20, 2015

Georgia’s unemployment rate inched down to 6.0 percent in July, the state labor department said Thursday.

The rate has improved from 7.2 percent in July of last year and has fallen from a recession high of 10.5 percent. But it has not been below 6 percent since May of 2008.

Georgia’s unemployment rate has been above the national average since October 2007.

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Over the past year, the state has added 89,400 jobs. That brought the unemployment rate down from 7.2 percent in July of last year. But Georgia’s rate is still considerably higher than the 5.3 percent national average.