Friday, March 16, 2018

Jobless numbers
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development has released county unemployment statistics for January. A vast majority of the state’s 95 counties continue to record unemployment rates under 5 percent and every county’s rate was lower than it was in January 2017. Williamson County continued to have Tennessee’s lowest unemployment rate at 2.5 percent, while Houston County has the highest rate at 6.8 percent. Local numbers look like this; Cocke 6.5 percent, Jefferson 4.5, Hamblen 4.3, Greene 4.8 and Sevier County 6.1 percent.


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