Madison County’s unemployment rate rose by 1.5 percent in January.
According to figures released recently by the Georgia Department of Labor, Madison County had 1,489 job seekers classified as “unemployed” in January, or 9.5 percent of the county’s 15,685 person labor force.
That’s up 1.5 percent from December’s figure of 1,254 unemployed, or 8 percent of the labor force.