Unemployment rate up
Unemployment rate up
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The effects of covid-19 on the economy is showing in numbers.
Georgia records an all-time high jobless rate in april, a time when many places were closed because of coronavirus.
We take a look at the county hit the hardest.
In april, many places were dealing with the spread of covid- 19 through stay-at-home orders.
And in that month the unemployment rate grew in all 50 states, including georgia.
Whitfield county had the highest jobless rate at 20.6 percent.
The dalton area jumped from 5.2 percent in march to 20.5 percent in april.
Morris innovative high school principal pat hunt: "we're already seeing a drop in our numbers and expecting that number to drop even further for next year."
Unemployment can have a domino effect impacting not just the person who lost their job.
Morris innovative high school principal pat hunt says they're seeing a lower number of students because their families are having to leave.
Morris innovative high school principal pat hunt: "there's a large hispanic population here and we've got a lot of kids who have gone other places you know wherever their jobs was shutdown.
So they're moving to where they can get work in another state or even in like another country."
While numbers went up across the state,
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