TN unemployment low, but sheds jobs for the 5th month in a row

By: Adam Friedman

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: June 1, 2026

Words: 512

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Tennessee’s unemployment rate remains at 3.6%, but for the fifth month in a row, the number of people employed statewide has dropped, newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, shows.

Around 3.42 million Tennesseans were employed in November 2025, and that number has now fallen to 3.38 million as of April.

A factor in this drop has been that almost 40,000 people have left the labor force entirely over …

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