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Tennessee’s unemployment rate for September was 5.7 percent, unchanged from the August, July and June revised rates, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today.
Prior to June, the state enjoyed five consecutive months of unemployment rate declines.
September 2014 to September 2015, Tennessee's unemployment rate dropped to 5.7 percent from 6.6 percent.
The national unemployment rate for September was 5.1 percent, unchanged from the August mark. The U.S. rate was 5.9 percent in September 2014.
