Gainesville, NE Ga. jobless rates down in April

ATLANTA - Metro Gainesville's unemployment rate is down from a month ago but remains above where it was a year ago, and the same is true of the rest of northeast Georgia.

The state Labor Department says Metro Gainesville's jobless rate fell two-tenths of a percent to 4.2 percent in April. A year ago, it was 3.1 percent.

As for the 13-county Georgia Mountains region, which includes Gainesville, the new rate is 4.6 percent, a decline of a tenth of a percent from a month ago. But it is 1.3 more than last April.