{"id":12633,"date":"2017-05-28T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2017-05-28T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:16:34","slug":"tennessee-unemployment-rates-improve-across-all-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/05\/28\/tennessee-unemployment-rates-improve-across-all-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Unemployment Rates Improve Across All Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>April 2017 Data Tells Story of Continued Improvement in Tennessee\u2019s Workforce<\/h2>\n<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\u2019s county unemployment rates for April 2017 have decreased in all 95 counties, according to data released today by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD).<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County&#8217;s unemployment rate in April dropped to 4.1 percent from March&#8217;s 5.0 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-for-April-2017.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-384593\" title=\"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates for April 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-for-April-2017-480x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"351\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne year ago, we had eight counties with an unemployment rate above 6 percent,\u201d said TDLWD Commissioner Burns Phillips. \u201cThis April, only two counties in the entire state reached that level. While we still have work to do, it is clear Tennessee is making progress in putting people to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the month of April, Davidson County has the state\u2019s lowest major metropolitan rate at 2.7 percent, a decline from 3.4 percent of the prior month. Knox County\u2019s rate is 3.2 percent, decreasing from March\u2019s 3.9 percent. Hamilton County declined from its previous month\u2019s rate of 4.5 to 3.6 percent and Shelby County has an unemployment rate of 4.4 percent rate, a decrease from 5.3 percent in March.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rate-Range-for-April-2017.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-384594\" title=\"Tennessee County Unemployment Rate Range for April 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rate-Range-for-April-2017-480x80.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee County Unemployment Rate Range for April 2017\" width=\"480\" height=\"80\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preliminary unemployment rates have fallen for both Tennessee and the United States. Decreasing by four-tenths of a percentage point, the state rate is 4.7 percent for April. The national rate fell a tenth of percentage point to 4.4 percent for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Specific county information for the month of April is available online at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tn.gov\/assets\/entities\/labor\/attachments\/Labor_Force_Estimates%2C_Apr_17.pdf\" >http:\/\/tn.gov\/assets\/entities\/labor\/attachments\/Labor_Force_Estimates%2C_Apr_17.pdf<\/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, opening and closing of schools, and other recurring seasonal events from economic time series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2017 Data Tells Story of Continued Improvement in Tennessee\u2019s Workforce Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee\u2019s county unemployment rates for April 2017 have decreased in all 95 counties, according to data released today by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). Montgomery County&#8217;s unemployment rate in April dropped to 4.1 percent from March&#8217;s 5.0 [&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":[8032,1907,1908,1636,1900,9511,284,925,261,870,5303,1903,2038],"class_list":["post-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-burns-phillips","tag-davidson-county","tag-hamilton-county","tag-knox-county","tag-montgomery-county","tag-montgomery-county-unemployment-rate","tag-nashville-tn","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","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=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}