{"id":16747,"date":"2020-07-26T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:49:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:49:51","slug":"june-unemployment-rates-decrease-in-majority-of-tennessee-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/07\/26\/june-unemployment-rates-decrease-in-majority-of-tennessee-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"June Unemployment Rates Decrease in Majority of Tennessee Counties"},"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; Unemployment rates in a vast majority of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties continued to drop in June, according to new data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-four counties had lower jobless rates for the month, as Tennessee continues to reopen after many businesses closed in the spring to help curb the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June-2020-Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-496072\" title=\"June 2020 Tennessee County Unemployment Rates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June-2020-Tennessee-County-Unemployment-Rates-480x234.jpg\" alt=\"June 2020 Tennessee County Unemployment Rates\" width=\"480\" height=\"234\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unemployment did increase slightly in 17 counties during the month and remained the same in four counties.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate for Henry County was 8.9 percent in June down 0.5 percent from July&#8217;s 9.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson County recorded the lowest unemployment rate in June. At 6.7%, the rate dropped 0.4 of a percentage point when compared to May\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett County\u2019s rate of 6.8% was Tennessee\u2019s second-lowest figure for the month, down 0.3 of a percentage point from May. Pickett County had the third-lowest rate at 7.2%, down a 0.5 of a percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby County had the state\u2019s highest rate of unemployment in June. Its figure jumped 1.8 percentage points to 13.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Grundy County was just below Shelby County at 13.1%, which represents a 3.8 percentage point drop from May\u2019s rate of 16.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Knoxville had the lowest unemployment rate among Tennessee\u2019s three largest cities at 9.5%, which is a 0.3 of a percentage point decrease from the month before. Nashville had a rate of 12.1%, down 0.2 of a percentage point from May. Memphis saw a 2.4 percentage point increase in unemployment between May and June to 12.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s statewide unemployment rate decreased for the second consecutive month. The June 2020 seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 9.7%, down 1.3 percentage points from May\u2019s revised rate of 11%.<\/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>A complete analysis of the June 2020 Tennessee county unemployment data can be found&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/content\/dam\/tn\/workforce\/documents\/LaborEstimates\/LaborForceEstimatesJun20.pdf\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Unemployment rates in a vast majority of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties continued to drop in June, according to new data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Seventy-four counties had lower jobless rates for the month, as Tennessee continues to reopen after many businesses closed in the spring to help curb [&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":[12675,12712,3533,6151,198,2716,1619,549,284,4773,925,261,870,5303,3694,4212],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-crockett-county","tag-grundy-county","tag-henry-county","tag-knoxville-tn","tag-memphis-tn","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-pickett-county","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","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\/16747","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=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16748,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/16748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}