{"id":78006,"date":"2025-09-22T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/78006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:09:07","slug":"georgias-unemployment-rate-steady-at-3-4-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/78006\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s unemployment rate steady at 3.4% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August workforce report for Georgia shows a gain of 1,900 jobs, with the unemployment rate unchanged from July.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly five million are employed in the state, according to numbers released Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>Health care and social assistance reached all-time highs, as did the leisure and hospitality sector. The biggest gainers for the month were retail trade, administrative and support services, accommodation and food services, and state government.<\/p>\n<p>Decliners included construction, information, professional and technical services, real estate and rental and leasing, and federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Labor Commissioner B\u00e1rbara Rivera Holmes pointed to growth during the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith unemployment holding steady at 3.4% in August, nine-tenths below the national average, and Georgia adding workers seven months in a row, our workforce is strong and growing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The August workforce report for Georgia shows a gain of 1,900 jobs, with the unemployment rate unchanged from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,12433,19,17,227,2297],"class_list":{"0":"post-78006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-georgia","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-unemployment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}