Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for December was 10.9 percent, up seven-tenths of a percentage point from the November rate of 10.2 percent.
The December rate a year ago was 7.6 percent. The national unemployment rate for December was 10 percent, equal to the November rate of 10 percent.
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