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Atlanta's jobless rate will fall  even further this year thanks to a diversifying economy. That's the assessment from CNBC?s former chief economist Dr. Marci Rossell  during last week?s annual CREW luncheon at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Marci says Atlanta's job market has been diversifying out of finance and construction and into more business services, healthcare, education and green energy, which are producing jobs. That will help push the unemployment rate down to 7.2% from its current 8%. With that knowledge, the safest job in 2013 will be someone who teaches their surgery patients about solar pacemakers.

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