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Here's your roundup of top stories from Marietta and nearby Patches for Dec. 23.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Marietta Jobless Rate Falls to 9%
The unemployment rate for all of Cobb County dropped to 8.4 percent in November.
Marietta had 130 fewer unemployed residents in November than in October, cutting the city’s jobless rate to 9 percent, according to preliminary figures from the Georgia Department of Labor. The city’s unemployment rate fell half a percentage point from 9.5 percent in October. The rate was 9.7 percent in September and in November 2010. More than 300 additional Mariettans were working in November than in October—a total of 32,227 people with jobs in a workforce that grew to 35,431 from October's 35,247. That left 3,204 people officially on the unemployment rolls, compared with 3,334 a month earlier. The big improvement in November paralleled the gains for all of Cobb County and the Atlanta metro area as the local economy showed more life. …
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