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Georgia Mountains unemployment rate declines to 4.9 percent
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The Georgia Department of Labor recently announced that the unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region for September was 4.9 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from 5 percent in August. The rate in September 2014 was 6 percent. The Georgia Mountains region had the second lowest rate among the 25 local areas.