FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table during a job fair at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, N.Y. The Labor Department released its weekly report on applications for unemployment benefits on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. Slightly more Americans sought unemployment benefits during the previous week, but the overall levels still remain near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
Unemployment in Tennessee edged up at the end of 2016 despite the addition of 62,100 jobs across the state over the past year.
The Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development said today that the state's jobless rate rose by a tenth of a percentage point in December to 4.9 percent as the workforce continued to grow faster than the number of workers employed. Tennessee's jobless rate remained 0.2 percent above the U.S. unemployment rate of 4.7 percent last month.
Over the past year, however, Tennessee's unemployment rat declined by 0.7 percent from 5.6 percent in December 2015 to 4.9 percent in December 2016.
