{"id":160466,"date":"2025-09-22T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160466\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:08:07","slug":"georgias-unemployment-rate-steady-at-3-4-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160466\/","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":160467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,6378,124,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-160466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-georgia","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-unemployment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}