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Unemployment dropped by 1.5 percent last month
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Unemployment is continuing to drop in parts of Galway.
Across the city and county, unemployment fell by 324 last month, compared to October, a decrease of 1 and a half percent.
There are now 20 thousand people out of work in Galway.
The biggest drop in people on social welfare was in the city where 338 people came off the Live Register.
There are now just over 9 thousand 9 hundred people out of work in the city.
In Loughrea there was also a decrease in unemployment in November with 52 less people signing on.
The unemployment figure for Loughrea is now just under 2 thousand 200.
Tuam was another area which saw a drop in its jobless figure last month, with 33 coming off the Live Register.
There are now just under three thousand people out of work in Tuam.
There was a slight drop of 14 in unemployment in Gort last month, leaving the figure there at just under 14 hundred.
Not all areas experienced drops in unemployment in November however.
Clifden saw its jobless figure rise by more than a hundred.
There are now just over 11 hundred people out of work in Clifden.
In Ballinasloe, just one extra person joined the Live Register last month, bringing the figure there to just over 2 thousand 3 hundred people out of work.
While Galway saw a 1.5 percent decrease in unemployment last month, compared to October, overall the year on year difference is a drop of more than 5 percent.
There are 20 thousand people out of work in Galway now, compared to almost 22 thousand this time last year.