{"id":11399,"date":"2016-06-18T23:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T04:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2016-06-18T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:47:54","slug":"tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-may-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/06\/18\/tennessees-unemployment-rate-for-may-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee&#8217;s Unemployment Rate for May 4.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for May was 4.1 percent, two-tenths of a percentage point decrease from the April revised rate of 4.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. preliminary rate for May was 4.7 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tennessee-May-2016-Labor-Force-Estimates.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-348086\" title=\"Tennessee May 2016 Labor Force Estimates\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tennessee-May-2016-Labor-Force-Estimates-480x120.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee May 2016 Labor Force Estimates\" width=\"480\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Economic Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Over the past year, Tennessee&#8217;s unemployment rate decreased from 5.8 percent to 4.1 percent while the national rate declined from 5.5 percent to 4.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Total nonfarm employment decreased 13,400 jobs from April to May. The largest decreases occurred in government, leisure\/hospitality, &amp; professional\/business services.<\/p>\n<p>Over the year, nonfarm employment increased 60,900 jobs. The largest increases occurred in education\/health services, trade\/transportation\/utilities, &amp; manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for May was 4.1 percent, two-tenths of a percentage point decrease from the April revised rate of 4.3 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for May was 4.7 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the previous [&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-11399","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\/11399","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=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11400,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}