Where the jobless rate is going down : Walker County, Ga

As the United States grapples with stubbornly high unemployment, there’s one part of the country where the jobless rate is plummeting.

Walker County, Ga., population, 68,756.

As manufacturing strengthened in the area, Walker’s unemployment rate shaved off more than three percentage points in only 15 months, and is still falling fast.

“We have actually seen a boom, or a blessing — I guess we could call it that — in our local manufacturers,” said Larry Brooks of the Walker County Development Authority…

One unexpected savior for Walker came from an unlikely source: the auto industry…

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