{"id":17659,"date":"2021-05-20T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:13:45","slug":"april-unemployment-rate-highlights-states-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2021\/05\/20\/april-unemployment-rate-highlights-states-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"April Unemployment Rate Highlights State’s Economic Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– Tennessee\u2019s statewide unemployment rate for April 2021 decreased by double digits when compared to data from the previous year. In April 2020, the state\u2019s jobless rate reached a record high during the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"Tennessee<\/a><\/p>\n

State\u2019s preliminary, seasonally adjusted rate for April is 5%, according to data released from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. That\u2019s down 0.1 of a percentage point from March\u2019s revised rate of 5.1%.<\/p>\n

Unemployment reached an all-time high in April 2020, at the height of business closures due to the pandemic. The revised rate of 15.8% is 10.8 percentage points higher than where it stands one year later.<\/p>\n

Employers across Tennessee added 9,800 jobs between March and April of 2021. The retail trade sector accounted for the largest number of new jobs, while the accommodation\/food services and professional\/scientific\/technical services sectors had the second-and-third-largest gains for the month.<\/p>\n

Between April 2020 and April 2021, Tennessee\u2019s economy made a remarkable rebound with the addition of 287,400 jobs. The state\u2019s leisure\/hospitality industry put the most people back to work over the last 12 months, followed by the trade\/transportation\/utilities and manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n

Nationally, seasonally adjusted unemployment increased slightly to 6.1%, up 0.1 of a percentage point from March\u2019s revised rate of 6%. In a year-to-year comparison, the United States rate is down 8.7% from where it was in April 2020.<\/p>\n

You can find a complete analysis of Tennessee\u2019s unemployment data for April 2021 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tennessee employers currently have more than 250,000 job openings across the state. Job seekers can start their pathway to employment on the state\u2019s workforce development website, www.Jobs4TN.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The virtual American Job Center can help job seekers explore programs that may help them remove barriers to reentering the workforce. The online tool is accessible anytime, anywhere at www.TNVirtualAJC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Tennessee\u2019s statewide unemployment rate for April 2021 decreased by double digits when compared to data from the previous year. In April 2020, the state\u2019s jobless rate reached a record high during the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.<\/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":[12675,12712,71,3352,549,284,261,870,2590,3694,1903],"class_list":["post-17659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment-rate","tag-unemployment","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659","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=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17660,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}