Despite U.S. decline, Georgia rate rises, Tennessee stable

A job seeker fills out an application during a National Career Fairs job fair Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in Chicago. Weekly applications for jobless aid ticked up 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 295,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, April 23, 2015. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased to 284,500. Still, that is just 2,000 higher than three weeks ago when the average was at a nearly 15-year low.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) A job seeker fills out an application during a National Career Fairs job fair Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in Chicago. Weekly applications for jobless aid ticked up 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 295,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, April 23, 2015. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased to 284,500. Still, that is just 2,000 higher than three weeks ago when the average was at a nearly 15-year low.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

By Dave Flessner December 15, 2016 1 min read

Despite the nationwide drop in unemployment last month, Tennessee’s jobless rate in November was unchanged at 4.8 percent.

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said today that seasonally adjusted employment levels fell by 2,8o0 jobs in November, due primarily to cutbacks in leisure and hospitality following the busy summer months and in manufacturing which suffered from both plant and seasonal cutbacks.

The U.S. unemployment rate for November was 4.6 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.

Over the past year, nonfarm employment increased in Tennessee by 55,600 jobs, or 2.8 percent.

Tennessee’s jobless rate, although above the U.S. average, was still below the rate in neighboring Georgia.