{"id":9585,"date":"2015-01-26T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2015-01-25T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:17:48","slug":"tennessees-unemployment-rate-decreased-to-6-6-in-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/01\/26\/tennessees-unemployment-rate-decreased-to-6-6-in-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee&#8217;s Unemployment Rate decreased to 6.6% in December, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>Fourth Consecutive Decrease of State Unemployment Rate<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29165\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tnlabor.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development\" width=\"148\" height=\"69\" \/>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for December, 2014 was 6.6 percent, two-tenths of one percentage point lower than the November revised rate of 6.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. preliminary rate for December was 5.6 percent, also falling two-tenths of one percentage point from the prior month.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tennessee-Unemployment-December-2014.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-298795\" title=\"Tennessee Unemployment December 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tennessee-Unemployment-December-2014-480x138.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Unemployment December 2014\" width=\"480\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Economic Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the past year, Tennessee&#8217;s unemployment rate decreased from 7.7 percent to 6.6 percent while the national rate declined from 6.7 percent to 5.6 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Total nonfarm employment increased 12,500 jobs from November to December. The largest increases occurred in trade\/transportation\/utilities, manufacturing, and mining\/logging\/construction.<\/li>\n<li>Over the year, nonfarm employment increased 66,200 jobs. The largest increases occurred in professional\/business services, trade\/transportation\/utilities, and mining\/logging\/construction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth Consecutive Decrease of State Unemployment Rate Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for December, 2014 was 6.6 percent, two-tenths of one percentage point lower than the November revised rate of 6.8 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for December was 5.6 percent, also falling [&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":[8032,284,261,1902,1903,2038],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-burns-phillips","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","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=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}