{"id":16675,"date":"2020-07-16T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2020-07-16T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:22:34","slug":"unemployment-continues-to-drop-across-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/07\/16\/unemployment-continues-to-drop-across-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Continues to Drop Across Tennessee"},"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=\"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; Tennessee\u2019s unemployment rate decreased in June for the second consecutive month after reaching an all-time high in April, according to preliminary data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tennessee-Unemployment-rates-June-2020.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-495157\" title=\"Tennessee Unemployment rates - June 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tennessee-Unemployment-rates-June-2020-480x160.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Unemployment rates - June 2020\" width=\"480\" height=\"160\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The June 2020 seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 9.7%, down 1.3 percentage points from May\u2019s revised rate of 11%.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, the rate was 3.4%, very near the state\u2019s all-time low unemployment rate of 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee experienced record-high unemployment in April when the jobless number spiked to 15.5% at the height of business closures due to the COVID-19 health emergency. Before the pandemic, the state\u2019s previous record-setting unemployment rate was 12.9% in January 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Between May and June, the state\u2019s employers added 108,500 nonfarm jobs. The top three sectors for job creation across Tennessee were leisure\/hospitality, government, and education and health services.<\/p>\n<p>As the state slowly reopens, employers are creating new job opportunities, but there is still a deficit when comparing year-to-year data. From June 2019 through June 2020, Tennessee lost 154,000 positions. The largest decrease came in the leisure\/hospitality sector, followed by the manufacturing sector, and then the professional\/business services sector.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, seasonally adjusted unemployment dropped by 2.2 percentage points in June, going from 13.3% to 11.1%.<\/p>\n<p>You can access a complete analysis of Tennessee\u2019s June unemployment data <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/content\/dam\/tn\/workforce\/documents\/economicanalysis\/EconomicAnalysisJun20.pdf\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee employers are hiring. Job seekers can find more than 190,000 current job openings on the state\u2019s workforce development website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jobs4tn.gov\/\" >www.Jobs4TN.gov<\/a>. Tennesseans can also find free assistance with improving job search skills, updating resumes, and job training opportunities on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee\u2019s unemployment rate decreased in June for the second consecutive month after reaching an all-time high in April, according to preliminary data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.<\/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":[12675,12712,549,284,261,12038,5303,2590,1903],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-deaprtment-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-tennessee-unemployment-rate","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","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=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16676,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions\/16676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}