If there is a silver lining to the current economic crisis, it came from the Georgia Labor Department today.According to the GLD, statewide unemployment benefit claims increased nearly 55 percent in November from the same month of 2007. The November increase was less than October’s 75 percent jump, snapping a string of three consecutive months in which claims rose by 70 percent or more.
The GLD noted that 74,480 laid-off workers filed first-time claims for all of November, including 10,310 in metro Atlanta, where monthly claims jumped 58.5 percent.
Dalton was hardest hit with claims jumping 147 percent, while Augusta saw the smallest jump at 23 percent.
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