{"id":10918,"date":"2016-01-28T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2020-04-26T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T19:43:55","slug":"tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-for-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/01\/28\/tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-for-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates for December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 County unemployment rates for December 2015, released today, show the rates decreased in 43 counties, increased in 35, and remained the same in 17 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Henry County&#8217;s unemployment rate in December was 6.5 percent, up from November&#8217;s rate of 6.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-for-December-2015.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-333842\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-333842\" title=\"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates for December 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-for-December-2015-480x336.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates for December 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"336\"><\/a><!--more-->For the month of December, Davidson County had the state\u2019s lowest major metropolitan rate at 4.0 percent, down from November\u2019s rate of 4.1 percent. Knox County was 4.3 percent in December, down from 4.4 the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton County rate was 5.1 percent, the same as November. Shelby County was 6.1 percent, down from 6.4 percent the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s preliminary unemployment rate for December was 5.6 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month\u2019s revised rate. The U.S. preliminary rate for December was 5.0 percent, unchanged from November.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TN-Coutny-Unemployment-Rate-Range-December-2015.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-333844\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333844\" title=\"TN County Unemployment Rate Range December 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TN-Coutny-Unemployment-Rate-Range-December-2015.jpg\" alt=\"TN County Unemployment Rate Range December 2015\" width=\"449\" height=\"116\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state and national unemployment rates are seasonally adjusted while the county unemployment rates are not. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that eliminates the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools, and other recurring seasonal events from economic time series.<\/p>\n<p>Specific county information for December is available on the Internet: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/assets\/entities\/labor\/attachments\/Labor_Force_Estimates_Dec15.pdf\" >http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/assets\/entities\/labor\/attachments\/Labor_Force_Estimates_Dec15.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee County unemployment rates for December 2015, released today, show the rates decreased in 43 counties, increased in 35, and remained the same in 17 counties. Henry County&#8217;s unemployment rate in December was 6.5 percent, up from November&#8217;s rate of 6.4 percent.<\/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":[30],"tags":[1907,1908,198,1636,284,925,261,10714,5303,3694],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-davidson-county","tag-hamilton-county","tag-henry-county","tag-knox-county","tag-nashville-tn","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-county-unemployment-rates","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","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=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15960,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions\/15960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}