{"id":18307,"date":"2022-10-23T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=18307"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:58:51","slug":"tennessees-unemployment-rate-holds-steady-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2022\/10\/23\/tennessees-unemployment-rate-holds-steady-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee’s Unemployment Rate Holds Steady in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– Unemployment in Tennessee remained unchanged between August and September, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD).<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September came in at 3.4% and is just 0.2 of a percentage point away from Tennessee\u2019s all-time low rate of 3.2%.<\/p>\n

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One year ago, unemployment across the state stood at 3.8%, which is 0.4 of a percentage point higher than the current rate.
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\nTennessee employers created 13,700 new nonfarm jobs between August and September. The trade, transportation, and utilities sector had the largest number of new jobs, followed by the leisure and hospitality sector, and then the education and health services sector.
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\nIn a year-to-year comparison, the number of nonfarm jobs across the state increased by 140,200. The leisure and hospitality sector created the most jobs while the trade, transportation, and utilities sector, and the education and health services sector came next on the list.
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\nNationally, seasonally-adjusted unemployment dropped in September. It was down 0.2 of a percentage point, coming in at 3.5% for the month. One year ago, the United States unemployment rate was 4.7%.
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\nThe TDLWD has a complete analysis of Tennessee\u2019s September 2022 unemployment data available here.<\/a>
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\nJob seekers can find in person and online help when searching for a new job. TNWorkReady.com<\/a> lists all of the resources TDLWD provides help Tennesseans find employment. There are also nearly 80 American Job Centers across the state and six mobile American Job Centers that take job seeker services right into our communities. Tennesseans looking for work can use this interactive map<\/a> to locate the job center closest to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Unemployment in Tennessee remained unchanged between August and September, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). The state\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September came in at 3.4% and is just 0.2 of a percentage point away from Tennessee\u2019s all-time low rate of 3.2%.<\/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":[107,549,284,6060,2590,3694],"class_list":["post-18307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-featured","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-worforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment-rate","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307","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=18307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18309,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}