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Jobless Rate
Falls Statewide
Reflecting a prediction by
Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell of a couple of months
ago that ‘‘the recession has
bottomed out,” the state's
latest unemployment rate has
rolled dramatically
downward.
Georfiia’s {'obless figure
has tumbled all the way g‘;m
7.7 percent to 7.1 percent, the
State Labor De{mrtment
reported last week. It was the
largest decline since March
1981 when it fell from 6.6 per
cent to 5.7, a .9 percent drop.
“Of course, the figure is
still much too high,” Caldwell
said, “‘and the decline is liable
to be short-lived. June is the
month when thousands of
young people in this state
come into the job market for
the first time. And with a
recession still in our midst, it
is going to be a briarpatch for
our young people, and that is
unfortunate.
“Still, things are lookir:ig
ug Caldwell continued.
‘‘Both our heavy construction
and housing got an early start
with the warming weather
from middle-February on.
And this is the so-called ‘fifth’
year when a lot of people, own
ing five-year-old automobiles,
are forced to look hard at the
purchase of a new car. And car
sales are up — as well as retail
sales generally. In a nutshell,
we are just a state with a
healthy, balanced diversifica
tion of industry and
empl!oyers."
ranslated into human
terms, however, Caldwell said,
the 7.1 percent unemployment
rate, wg?ch is for Airil. (the
latest month for which figures
are available) means that
2,446,265 Georgians are on
jobs, with 186,284
unemployed.
Revised State Labor
March figures saw Georgia
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with more than 200,000
unemglo{yed (officially
202,729) for the 7.7 percent
jobless rate. A year ago April
there was only a 5.8 percent
jobless rate, with 2,432,092
employed in the state, and
151,118 unemployed. In a
year's time, Georgia emplor
ment has grown by only
13,529 — but this figure
shows the beginnings of a
recovery from a deep reces
sion,
Caldwell reported that all
of the state’s half-dozen Stan
dard Metropolitan Statistical
Areas showed declines in
unemployment — with the ex
ception of Albany. Metro
Atlanta, Caldwell said,
reflected the healthiest decline
among major areas, falling
from 6.3 to 5.8 percent.
The 15-county Atlanta
SMSA, where 39 percent of
Georgia's jobs are located, has
officially now more than one
million people on jobs —
1,094,080 to exact. Metro
Atlanta has grown by 30,401
in its civilian labor force in a
year's time, and has 20,915
more people on jobs than a
year ago April — when 53,474
were unemployed, for a 5.3
percent rate. Metro Atlanta
now has 62,960 jobless.
Augusta, with 124,751
employed, and 11,210
unemployed, fell from 8.7 to
8.2 percent (showing a gain of
2,792 in a year’s time — April
to-April — in employment);
Columbus fell from a state
high of 12.3 to 9.1 percent,
with 79,673 employecf,e 8,020
unemployed, for a job-loss of
764 in a year’s time; Macon
descended from 6.7 percent to
6.2, with 101,937 employed,
6,774 unemployed, with a
jobs-growth of 2,646 in a
year’'s time, and Savannah,
showing the largest growth in
jobs of all the SMSA'’s in a
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year’s time (4,463), fell from a
7.0 to a 6.8 percent, with
93,327 on jobs, and 6,788
jobless.
Only Albany, which rose
from 8.5 percent to 8.8 per
cent, recorded the negative
gain in unemployment. Ac
tually Albany’s civilian ‘‘on
jobs market” increased by
1,637 year-to-year. There are
now 50,315 people on jobs in
the Albany gfidgA compared
to 50,026 a month frevious
(and 48,678 in April, 1981),
but the Albany SMSA's
civilian labor force has in
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time — from 52,536 to 55,188,
thereby partially explaining
the sfight growth in the
unem?loyed.
Caldwell said the Georgia
Department of Labor’s
unemployment compensation
claims, which he called
“perhaps our %uickest and
best economic indicator,”’ con
tinues to show improvement.
Total claims, Caldwell
said, are down to 38,155 per
sons, a far cry from the 94,000
peak reached during the bad
weather-bad economy of mid
winter. During the last week
in January, for example, State
Labor paid out slightly more
than $8 million ($8,096,554) to
the aforementioned 94,616
persons. For the most recent
week reported, State Labor
E:id out $5,958,806 in jobless
nefits to 60,211 Georgians.
However, a year ago, State
Labor was paying out
$3,138,813 to 38,155
Georgians, reflecting the fact
that the correspondinfi week a
year past did not show the
Trion Minor League Reds
continuing effect of an on
going recession.
For the first seven weeks
of this year, the Georgia
Department of Labor,
Caldwell said, re%:'stered an
averafe of more than 31,000
initial claims, coming, of
course, from those newly
unemployed. Since that time,
however, State Labor has
been averaging 15,000 new
claims each week, and for the
most recent week, claims of
those newly-unemployed
numbered 17,129, and for the
week previous to that they
numbered 15,950, and for the
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first week ending in May, new
claims numbereg 13,364.
So far this year, State
Labor, Caldwell said, has paid
out $124,628,665 in jobless
benefits, compared to
$75,023,614 for the same time
a year ago, again revealing the
severity of this recession. The
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