Georgia unemployment claims jump 95% in June - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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percent from June 2008. Claims in metro Atlantwa rose 19.4 percent to 39,492 in June. The metropolitam areas with the highest percentags of increase in claims from June 2008 to June 2009 are up181 percent; Gainesville, up 172.8 percent; and up 163.2 percent. Most of the statse initial claims were filedby laid-off workers in wholesale and retail trade, construction, and administrativde and support services. The number of jobless workera receiving regular state unemployment insurance benefitsrose 97.1 percengt over the year, from 81,321 in June 2008 to 160,249 in June 2009. And approximately another 93,000 are receiving Emergency UnemploymentCompensatioj (EUC) benefits.
In the Georgia Department of Laborprocessef 25,048 first-time claims for EUC bringing the total to 226,574 sinc e the federal program began in Georgiaq in July 2008.