Georgia Unemployment Sits at 10.1% for June

A new report from the Georgia Department of Labor shows that the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 10.1 percent in June. The unemployment rate for May was a revised 9.6 percent.

Looking at Atlanta specifically, Atlantans lost nearly 134,000 jobs in June. That number was down 5.5 percent from the same time a year ago.

For Georgia as a while, this year's June jobless rate increased 4 percentage points from the same time a year ago, while the state's unemployment rate was still above the national rate of 9.5 percent for the 20th straight month.

One positive figure is that health care and educational services saw a total increase of 12,000 jobs.