{"id":10317,"date":"2015-08-23T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2015-08-23T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:14:17","slug":"tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-july-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/08\/23\/tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-july-5-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee&#8217;s Unemployment Rate for July 5.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29165\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tnlabor.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" width=\"148\" height=\"69\" \/>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Labor &amp; Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for July was 5.7 percent, unchanged from the June revised rate.<\/p>\n<p>The United States preliminary rate for July was 5.3 percent, also unchanged from the prior month.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tennessee-Labor-Force-July-2015.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-320013\" title=\"Tennessee Labor Force July 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tennessee-Labor-Force-July-2015-480x124.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Labor Force July 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Economic Summary<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the past year, Tennessee&#8217;s unemployment rate decreased from 6.6 percent to 5.7 percent while the national rate declined from 6.2 percent to 5.3 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Total nonfarm employment increased 1,300 jobs from June to July. The largest increases occurred in leisure\/hospitality, manufacturing, and wholesale trade.<\/li>\n<li>Over the year, nonfarm employment increased 52,500 jobs. The largest increases occurred in trade\/transportation\/utilities, leisure\/hospitality, and professional\/business services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<h3>Seasonally Adjusted Nonfarm Employment \u2013 Business Survey<\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"1\" width=\"480\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>(Number in thousands)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>July 2014<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Revised June 2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Preliminary July 2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Change from July 2014 to July 2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Change from June 2015 to July 2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Total Nonfarm<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2,816.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2,867.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2,868.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">52.5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Mining\/logging\/construction<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">110.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">113.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">112.5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2.1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-0.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Manufacturing<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">324.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">330.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">331.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7.5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Trade\/transportation\/utilities<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">592.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">605.8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">606.7<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Information<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">43.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">43.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">43.7<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-0.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Financial activities<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">141.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">145.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">144.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3.0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-0.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Professional\/business services<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">374.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">385.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">384.6<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-1.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Education services<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">53.4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">53.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">54.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Health care\/social assistance<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">348.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">354.8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">355.2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Leisure\/hospitality<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">297.3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">306.0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">309.1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11.8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">Government<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">423.8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">424.1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">419.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-3.9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-4.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Labor &amp; Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for July was 5.7 percent, unchanged from the June revised rate. The United States preliminary rate for July was 5.3 percent, also unchanged from the prior month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[8032,284,1902,5303,2590],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-burns-phillips","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-tennessee-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}