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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 27, 2025

Tennessee ended 2024 with an unemployment rate of 3.6% in December, well below the U.S. rate, according to data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.6% in December, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. Despite the uptick, Tennessee’s unemployment rate remains five-tenths of a percentage point lower than the national rate of 4.1%, Clarksville Online reports. Between November and December, Tennessee employers added 500 nonfarm jobs, with the health care and social assistance sector seeing the largest gains, followed by local government and the real estate, rental and leasing sectors.