County Unemployment Rates for March

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT RELEASED NEW DATA THAT SHOWED UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IMPROVED IN NEARLY EVERY COUNTY ACROSS TENNESSEE IN MARCH 2023. NINETY-FOUR OF TENNESSEE’S 95 COUNTIES EXPERIENCED A DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT DURING MARCH. UNEMPLOYMENT IS LESS THAN 5% IN 91 COUNTIES ACROSS TENNESSEE, WHILE IT IS 5% OR GREATER, BUT LESS THAN 10%, IN THE REMAINING FOUR COUNTIES. WILLIAMSON COUNTY REPORTED THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE MONTH, GILES COUNTY CAME IN AT 3.1 PERCENT, LAWRENCE AT 3.3, LEWIS AT 3.1, MARSHALL AT 3.0, MAURY AT 2.7 AND WAYNE AT 3.7.

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