Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Atlanta’s unemployment rate spiked in April, breaking its previous all-time high of 10.6 percent set in February of 2010.
In Atlanta, the unemployment rate increased 8.3 percentage points in April, reaching 12.7 percent.
The number of unemployment claims went up by 324 percent in April, which directly correlated with the number of temporary and potentially permanent lay-offs associated with COVID-19.
When compared to last April, claims were up by about 8,783 percent.
Employ Georgia, the GDOL’s online job listing service at employgeorgia.com showed about 50,212 active job postings in metro Atlanta for April.
