Tennessee’s unemployment rate for January was 5.4 percent, a drop of 2-tenths of a percentage point from the December rate of 5.6 percent. That’s according to numbers from the Tennessee Department of Labor. The U.S. unemployment rate for January was 4.9 percent, a slight drop from the December rate of 5.0 percent. Over the past year, Tennessee’s unemployment rate has decreased from 6.1 to 5.4 percent, while the national rate declined from 5.7 to 4.9 percent.
Unemployment Rate Drops in Tennessee
