With the current state the of the economy, it’s no surprise that finding a job in Atlanta has gotten increasingly more difficult in the last few months. Between November and December unemployment jumped from 6.9 percent to 7.6 percent. During the same time the national jobless rate was 7.2 percent.
According to the most recent report from Georgia State University’s Economic Forecasting Center, things may not get better until 2011. In the mean time, the situation for those looking for jobs in Atlanta and elsewhere in the state is expected to worsen. Experts are now saying that as many as 143,100 jobs in Georgia could be lost before the end of this year. Of these, approximately 92,200 are expected to be jobs in the Atlanta area.
During the first half of 2010 the report stated that approximately 10,200 Atlanta jobs will be lost. After this period, a small recovery is expected. For the second part of the year employers in the area will create somewhere around 400 jobs, which will bring the city’s job losses to 9,800 for the year. After this Atlanta’s economy will begin to strengthen. In 2011 a total of 34,000 new jobs will be created, if the report is correct.