The Georgia economy is going to have another decent year with solid job growth, according to Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University.

Employers will add 99,300 positions this year, while unemployment rates continue to decline in metro Atlanta and the state, Dhawan wrote in a report released Wednesday at the center’s quarterly forecasting conference.

That is slightly less than last year’s surprisingly strong addition of 145,000 jobs.

But Dhawan said the strong growth during 2014 was undermined somewhat by the “quality” of the jobs — a larger than usual proportion were low-paying positions.

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