Thursday, April 26, 2012
Unemployment across Cobb County dropped to 8.1 percent.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Marietta’s unemployment rate improved to 9.2 percent in March from 9.4 percent in February, 9.6 percent in January and 9.7 percent in March 2011, according to preliminary figures announced today by the Georgia Department of Labor. Meanwhile, Cobb County’s jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent in March from a revised 8.3 percent in February, 8.4 percent in January and 8.9 percent in March 2011. Those gains 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 …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The city had 9.6 percent unemployment in January, while Cobb County's rate was 8.4 percent.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Marietta’s unemployment rate jumped to 9.6 percent in January from a revised 9.1 percent in December. The city lost 112 jobs in January, according to preliminary figures the Georgia Department of Labor released today, but still had 786 more residents working than in January 2011, when the jobless rate was 9.9 percent. Cobb County’s unemployment rate, meanwhile, rose to 8.4 percent in January as the number of people looking for work in the county rose by almost 1,200, the Labor Department said. That preliminary jobless rate is up from a revised 8.1 percent in December but down 1 percentage point from January 2011. Because the local job numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors, such as a post-holiday slowdown in retail sales and a …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The unemployment rate in the city didn't change in December, but the Labor Department says more people were working.
Marietta’s employed workforce kept growing in December even though the unemployment rate didn’t change. For all of Cobb County, employment ended 2011 on the rise while the jobless rate crept higher in December. Preliminary figures out today from the state Department of Labor show that 29 more people in Marietta had jobs at the end of December than were working a month earlier, but with a labor force of more than 35,400 people, that growth wasn’t enough to change the rate from 9 percent. The more important comparison is to a year ago, and the city’s rate dropped almost a half-point from 9.4 percent in December 2010 as an additional 701 Mariettans found jobs. The local employment figures are not seasonally adjusted, so the month-to-month …
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 Marietta deal with 9 percent unemployment in the city and 8.4 percent across Cobb 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 Marietta 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
Cobb County's unemployment rate falls to 9.1 percent in October.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The unemployment rate fell for Marietta and for all of Cobb County in October, according to preliminary figures from the Georgia Department of Labor. Marietta’s jobless rate dropped to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent in September and 9.9 percent in October 2010. Cobb County’s unemployment rate was down to 9.1 percent from 9.4 percent in September and from 9.6 percent in October 2010. The local numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors. The 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. The unemployment rates for Marietta and Cobb remain lower than the state rate—a seasonally adjusted 10.2 percent in October, down…
