Unemployment Rate Up in Tennessee

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for the month of January was 5.4 percent, increasing from the revised December rate of 5.1 percent. That’s according to Tennessee Labor Commissioner Burns Phillips. The U.S. unemployment rate for January was 4.8 percent, up one tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. While experiencing a rate increase from 4.8 to 5.4 percent over the past year in Tennessee, the national rate has declined from 4.9 percent to 4.8 percent within the same time span.