ATLANTA — Georgia’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.1% last month, equaling the all-time low set in March, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.

Joblessness in the Peach State was five-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate for April of 3.6%.

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