{"id":17451,"date":"2020-11-29T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17451"},"modified":"2020-11-29T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T22:28:51","slug":"tennessee-unemployment-in-several-counties-increased-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/11\/29\/tennessee-unemployment-in-several-counties-increased-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Unemployment in several Counties Increased in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– Many Tennessee counties experienced changes in their unemployment rates during October 2020, according to newly released data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD).<\/p>\n

Henry County unemployment in October was 7.5% an increase of 2.2% from September’s 5.3%.<\/p>\n

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Unemployment in 93 of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties increased in October. Davidson County and Sevier County saw their rates decrease during the month.<\/p>\n

During October, two counties in the state had unemployment rates below 5%, 90 counties had rates of 5% or greater, and three counties recorded rates of 10% or higher.<\/p>\n

Williamson County had the state\u2019s lowest unemployment in October with a rate of 4.6%, which is up 0.8 of a percentage point from its revised September rate of 3.8%<\/p>\n

Shelby County recorded October\u2019s highest jobless rate in Tennessee. At 11%, the county\u2019s unemployment increased by 0.7 of a percentage point when compared to the previous month\u2019s revised rate of 10.3%.<\/p>\n

TDLWD has produced a report with a complete analysis of Tennessee\u2019s October 2020 county unemployment data. You can find information for each county and statistical area here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s statewide unemployment rate increased during October. The preliminary, seasonally adjusted, statewide unemployment rate for October 2020 is 7.4%, an increase of 0.9 of a percentage point from September\u2019s revised rate of 6.5%.<\/p>\n

Nationally, unemployment decreased from September\u2019s revised rate of 7.9% to 6.9% in October. The U.S. rate is 3.3 percentage points higher than it was in October 2019.<\/p>\n

Tennessee employers are ready to help the state\u2019s economy rebound by hiring individuals to meet their business needs. Jobs4TN.gov, Tennessee\u2019s workforce development website, currently has over 240,000 open positions for workers of varying 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

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":"

Nashville, TN – Many Tennessee counties experienced changes in their unemployment rates during October 2020, according to newly released data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). Henry County unemployment in October was 7.5% an increase of 2.2% from September’s 5.3%.<\/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":[1907,1900,549,284,921,925,261,11612,5303,3694,4212],"class_list":["post-17451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-davidson-county","tag-montgomery-county","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-sevier-county","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce","tag-tennessee-unemployment","tag-unemployment","tag-williamson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451","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=17451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17452,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451\/revisions\/17452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}