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The number of jobs Atlanta lost during the last decade places the city among the majority of markets that experienced employment declines.

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics found that Atlanta was among 53 markets that lost private-sector jobs during the last decade. The city lost a total of 77,000 jobs between May 2000 and May 2010, placing it 91st among the top 100 metro areas.

During May 2000, Atlanta had a workforce of 2,012,800 employees, but after hitting a high of 2,129,000 jobs during May 2007, the city went on to strike a low employment of 1,935,300 workers during May of this year. However, that was not even close to the worst employment decline in the nation.

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created or retained thousands of Atlanta education jobs and nearly 10,000 education-related positions throughout the State of Georgia.

The state recently released a report detailing exactly how it has spent the federal stimulus funding it received. During Q1 of the ARRA, Georgia spent $701,567,169 and created or preserved a total of 23,879 jobs. The state has been awarded a total of $3,281,223,879.

At the beginning of the year, the White House predicted that stimulus spending would create a total of 3.6 million jobs throughout the country, with 106,000 of those jobs being created in Georgia. During September, it was estimated that so far about 1 million jobs had been created or preserved.

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