Last Thursday, the Georgia Department of Labor released unemployment rates for all counties in Georgia.  The unemployment rate in Chattooga County fell from 4.4% in August to 3.7% in September.  This time last year, Chattooga County’s unemployment rate was 4.1%. Statewide, Georgia’s unemployment rate rose slightly last month to 3.4% from 3.3%, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. Still, joblessness in the Peach State in September was four-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national average.