{"id":10675,"date":"2015-11-19T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2015-11-19T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T01:03:58","slug":"tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-october-decreased-to-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/11\/19\/tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-october-decreased-to-5-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee&#8217;s Unemployment Rate for October Decreased to 5.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<h2><em>The Number of Unemployed Persons is the Lowest since December 2007<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327830\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tennessee-Department-of-Labor-and-Workforce-Development.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" width=\"250\" height=\"76\" \/>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for October was 5.6 percent, one-tenth of one percentage point lower than the September revised rate of 5.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. preliminary rate for October was 5.0 percent, one-tenth of one percentage point lower than the prior month.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Labor-Force-Estimates-for-October-2015.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-327834\" title=\"Labor Force Estimates for October 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Labor-Force-Estimates-for-October-2015-480x126.jpg\" alt=\"Labor Force Estimates for October 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<h4>Economic Summary<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennessee&#8217;s unemployment rate for October declined slightly to 5.6 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Over the past year, Tennessee&#8217;s unemployment rate decreased from 6.6 percent to 5.6 percent while the national rate declined from 5.7 percent to 5.0 percent.<\/li>\n<li>The number of unemployed persons is the lowest since December 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Total nonfarm employment increased 10,400 jobs from September to October. The largest increases occurred in professional\/business services, government, and wholesale trade.<\/li>\n<li>Over the year, nonfarm employment increased 50,200 jobs. The largest increases occurred in trade\/transportation\/utilities, leisure\/hospitality, and professional\/business services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Number of Unemployed Persons is the Lowest since December 2007 Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for October was 5.6 percent, one-tenth of one percentage point lower than the September revised rate of 5.7 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for October was [&hellip;]<\/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":[8032,284,261,1902,5303],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-burns-phillips","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","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=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10676,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/10676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}