{"id":15952,"date":"2020-04-26T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15952"},"modified":"2020-04-25T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T03:19:33","slug":"tennessee-unemployment-rate-drops-in-nearly-two-thirds-of-the-counties-does-not-reflect-full-impact-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/26\/tennessee-unemployment-rate-drops-in-nearly-two-thirds-of-the-counties-does-not-reflect-full-impact-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Unemployment Rate Drops in Nearly Two-Thirds of the Counties, Does Not Reflect Full Impact of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>March Unemployment Figures do not Include End of Month Business Closures<\/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=\"https:\/\/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; Newly released unemployment data shows the jobless rate dropped in two-thirds of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties during March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment data for the month does not take into account the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus health emergency.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/March-2020-Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-488504\" title=\"March 2020 Tennessee County Unemployment Rates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/March-2020-Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-480x264.jpg\" alt=\"March 2020 Tennessee County Unemployment Rates\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The federal government conducted its survey to measure the number of Tennesseans who were out of work during the second week of the month, between March 8th and 14th.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development did not begin to see the unprecedented increase in unemployment claims until the third and fourth weeks of March.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rates decreased in 61 counties during March, increased in 18 counties, and remained the same in 16 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-eight counties had unemployment rates lower than 5% for the month, while 27 counties had rates that were 5% or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson County had the state\u2019s lowest unemployment rate in March. At 2.6%, the new rate mirrored February\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln County recorded Tennessee\u2019s highest unemployment rate at 7%, which is a 0.2 of a percentage point drop when compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>You can review a complete analysis of March 2020 unemployment data for each county <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/content\/dam\/tn\/workforce\/documents\/LaborEstimates\/LaborForceEstimatesMar20.pdf\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Unemployment Figures do not Include End of Month Business Closures Nashville, TN &#8211; Newly released unemployment data shows the jobless rate dropped in two-thirds of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties during March 2020. The unemployment data for the month does not take into account the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus health emergency.<\/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":[12675,12712,1904,549,284,870,5303,3694,4212],"class_list":["post-15952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-lincoln-county","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment","tag-williamson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952","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=15952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15953,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952\/revisions\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}