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Target to hire fewer holiday workers than last year posted on Friday, September 20, 2013 - 12:40pm SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Target plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the critical holiday shopping season, down about 20 percent from a year ago. The discounter is aiming to be more efficient... read more...
Jobless rate jumps in June posted on Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 9:45am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate rose to 8.9 in June.In Cobb County, the unemployment rate was 8.0 percent.The Georgia Department of Labor announced the new numbers early Thursday.The 8.9... read more...
Jobless rate drops to 7.9 percent posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 7:20am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate dropped to 7.9 percent in March, down four-tenths of a percentage point from 8.3 percent in February.In Cobb County, the jobless rate was 7.1 percent in... read more...
Metro jobless rate drops to 8.3 percent posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 8:02am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate declined to 8.3 percent in Februray.That's down from 8.7 percent in January and well under the jobless rate of 9.3 percent from February a year ago.Cobb... read more...
Metro jobless rate rises to 8.7 percent posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 7:09am ATLANTA -- State labor officials say metro Atlanta's jobless rate rose to 8.7 percent in January, up from 8.4 percent the month before.That compares to 9.4 percent in January 2012.In Cobb County, the... read more...
Unemployment rate drops to 8 percent posted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 10:07am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's jobless rate has dropped to 8 percent.The November number continues a downward trend in metro Atlanta's unemployment figures. The rate is down from 8.2 percent in October... read more...
Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton sue HSBC over predatory lending posted on Tuesday, December 25, 2012 - 8:02am ATLANTA -- Three Atlanta-area counties have filed a lawsuit claiming that British bank HSBC engaged in predatory lending that ended up costing them hundreds of millions of dollars. Cobb, DeKalb and... read more...
Metro Atlanta jobless rate drops to 8.2 percent posted on Monday, November 26, 2012 - 7:21am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's preliminary unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent in October, down from 8.3 percent in September and 9.4 percent in October 2011.In Cobb County, the unemployment rate... read more...
Metro jobless rate drops to 8.4 percent posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 - 6:33am ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate dropped to 8.4 percent in September, down from a revised 8.8 percent in August.In Cobb County, the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in September.Labor... read more...