-
Timothy Goines, left, has help from Adrian Craighead while looking for jobs on the computer at the Tennessee Employment Service Office at Eastgate Center in Brainerd in this file photo.Photo by Dan Henry /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Tennessee’s unemployment rate for October fell to 8.2 percent, down from the September revised rate of 8.3 percent.
The national unemployment rate for October was 7.9 percent, up from 7.8 in September.
Tennessee’s October unemployment rate is the lowest rate since June, according to Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development Karla Davis.
Total nonfarm employment increased 7,500 jobs from September to October, with increases in leisure/hospitality and professional/business services. There were declines in government and mining/logging/construction.
Get breaking news from the Times Free Press on Twitter at www.twitter.com/timesfreepress or by visiting us on Facebook or Twitter at the right:
related articles »
Jobless rates fell in both Tennessee and Georgia in October, officials said Thursday.
Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.7 percent in October, down from 9 percent in September.
With the addition of more than 25,000 jobs in January, Tennessee and Georgia began the new year with their lowest ...
March Unemployment in the Chattanooga metro area fell to a non-seasonally adjusted 8.6 percent, down from 9.1 percent in February, ...
