{"id":17251,"date":"2020-10-25T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17251"},"modified":"2020-10-24T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T04:20:33","slug":"tennessee-unemployment-rates-drop-in-every-county-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/10\/25\/tennessee-unemployment-rates-drop-in-every-county-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Unemployment Rates drop in every County in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued Reemployment of Tennesseans Drives Unemployment Down across the State<\/h2>\n

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– The unemployment rates in each of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties decreased in September, according to new data released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.<\/p>\n

Twenty-seven counties recorded unemployment rates below 5%, while 68 counties have a rate of 5% or higher. There are no counties with an unemployment rate higher than 10% in September.<\/p>\n

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The Henry County unemployment rate was 5.1 percent in September, down 2.1 percent from August.<\/p>\n

Once again, Moore County has the state\u2019s lowest unemployment rate. Its September figure of 3.2% is 1.9 percentage points lower than the previous month\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n

Shelby County continues to have Tennessee\u2019s highest unemployment. While its September rate is 9.9%, the new figure represents a drop of 3.7 percentage points from where it was in August.<\/p>\n

The rate in Memphis dropped 4.2 percentage points to 12.1%. Nashville\u2019s September rate is down 3.1 percentage points and sits at 7.5%. Knoxville saw a 2.4 percentage point drop in its rate which is now 5.8%. Unemployment in the Tri-Cities area stands at 5.3% for the month, down 1.9 percentage points from its revised August rate.<\/p>\n

A complete analysis of the September 2020 unemployment data for each county and statistical area in Tennessee is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Statewide, unemployment dropped to its lowest level in September since hitting an all-time high in April during the peak of COVID-19 business closures. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the month is 6.3%, a decrease of 2.3 percentage points from the revised August rate of 8.6%.<\/p>\n

Unemployment also decreased nationally in September. The seasonally adjusted rate for the United States is 7.9%, down 0.5 of a percentage point from August\u2019s revised rate of 8.4%. Tennessee’s unemployment rate is now 1.6 percentage points lower than the national rate.<\/p>\n

Businesses across Tennessee are ready to help the state\u2019s economy rebound by reemploying out of work individuals. Jobs4TN.gov, Tennessee\u2019s workforce development website, currently has 219,000 open positions for all job skill levels.<\/p>\n

Jobs4TN.gov also offers online assistance with writing a resume that will catch the attention of employers, advice on how to engage and impress during job interviews, and details about potential job training opportunities.<\/p>\n

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There are more than 80 American Job Centers across Tennessee that are open for business and offering job seekers one-on-one personalized assistance. Career specialists are ready to work with individuals to devise a reemployment plan that will help them rejoin the state\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n

All the assistance is free to anyone who needs help finding a new job or career path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued Reemployment of Tennesseans Drives Unemployment Down across the State Nashville, TN – The unemployment rates in each of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties decreased in September, according to new data released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Twenty-seven counties recorded unemployment rates below 5%, while 68 counties have a rate of 5% or […]<\/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":[12675,12712,198,13235,3696,549,284,925,261,12449,5303,3694,2038],"class_list":["post-17251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-henry-county","tag-knoxville","tag-moore-county","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-developement","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251","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=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17252,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions\/17252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}