{"id":13567,"date":"2018-03-22T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13567"},"modified":"2018-03-22T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:06:54","slug":"tennessee-statewide-unemployment-rate-remains-near-historic-low-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2018\/03\/22\/tennessee-statewide-unemployment-rate-remains-near-historic-low-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Statewide Unemployment Rate Remains Near Historic Low Levels"},"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 Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips today announced statewide unemployment remained near historic low levels in February with the preliminary rate at 3.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>February\u2019s rate is up just 0.1 of a percentage point from January\u2019s revised rate of 3.3 percent. Over the past 12 months, Tennessee&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased a full percentage point from 4.4 percent to 3.4 percent and remains less than the national average of 4.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tennessee-Unemployment-Rate-March-2018.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-415700\" title=\"Tennessee Unemployment Rate - March 2018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tennessee-Unemployment-Rate-March-2018-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Unemployment Rate - March 2018\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur consistent near-record low unemployment rate demonstrates that Tennessee\u2019s fiscal conservative policies foster an environment where businesses can thrive and create jobs,\u201d Haslam said. \u201cAs we continue to invest in our workforce though the Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect programs, Tennessee will lead in high-quality job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of Tennessee works every day, with both employers and job seekers, to ensure there are jobs opportunities available across the state and there is a qualified workforce to fill those positions.\u201d Phillips said. \u201cThis is one of the main reasons companies decide to locate or expand in Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statewide unemployment rate is seasonally adjusted to eliminate the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools and other recurring seasonal events from an economic time series.<\/p>\n<p>Tennesseans can access the latest job openings across the state, as well as job interview preparation information, on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jobs4tn.gov\/vosnet\/Default.aspx\" >state\u2019s workforce website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A complete analysis of the February 2018 statewide unemployment statistics can be found <a>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips today announced statewide unemployment remained near historic low levels in February with the preliminary rate at 3.4 percent. February\u2019s rate is up just 0.1 of a percentage point from January\u2019s revised rate of 3.3 percent. Over the past [&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":[3359,8032,284,12038,3350,5303,3694],"class_list":["post-13567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-haslam","tag-burns-phillips","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-deaprtment-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567","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=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}