And then there were three
Posted on March 12, 2010 at 7:35 am
The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s January county unemployment rates don’t make for happy reading. All 13 counties in the broader Nashville metro area saw their numbers rise and only three — Davidson, Williamson and Wilson — still have jobless rates below 10 percent.
Funny thing, this recovery.
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MSA unemployment jumps 50 beeps
Posted on January 28, 2010 at 3:08 pmThe Nashville area’s jobless rate rose to 9.4 percent in December, up 0.5 percent from the month before. The move mirrors the jump in the state rate and brings the MSA’s number closer to the U.S. rate of 10.0 percent. The region’s biggest job centers — Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Sumner and Wilson counties — have a combined rate of 9.2 percent.
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Next stop for area jobless rate: 8-something
Posted on December 28, 2009 at 8:56 amThe Nashville MSA’s unemployment ticked down another tenth of a percentage point in November, clocking in at 9.0 percent. The rate for a combined Davidson-Rutherford-Williamson-Sumner area — which accounts for three-quarters of the area’s labor force — fell to 8.7 percent from 8.9 percent in October.
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State jobless number ticks down
Posted on December 17, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Seasonal retail hiring and gains at services and health care companies helped push down Tennessee’s unemployment rate last month to 10.3 percent. I will note, however, that the state’s labor force has shrunk by almost 60,000 this year — which equates to another 0.2 percentage points of unemployment — and that only the health care sector has grown year over year.
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Saturn ail ya?
Posted on December 16, 2009 at 9:50 am
If so, the state’s got help. The Department of Labor & Workforce Development is dedicating more than $1 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cash to retraining efforts for workers at the now-shuttered Saturn/GM plant in Spring Hill as well as its suppliers.
“These Recovery Act dollars will go a long way to help unemployed workers prepare for jobs in areas where there are skill shortages,” said Commissioner [James] Neeley. “We are committed to helping as many people as possible who are looking to rejoin the workforce.”
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State jobless rate stays put
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 3:09 pmTennessee’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in October, even with September’s number and almost 4 points higher than that of a year ago. The biggest gainers and losers during the month were seasonal sectors: Schools added jobs, leisure and hospitality companies shed them.
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Filling Tennessee’s green job openings
Posted on at 8:34 am
The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the State Workforce Investment Board and MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center have received a $765,340 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to improve the matching of the state’s green jobs with workers.
The survey will focus on public and private interest in renewable transportation, sustainable agriculture, and Federal funding focused on the State’s burgeoning green economy. This survey will expand on prior green studies (Growing Green: the Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee 2008) by providing current estimates for the number of green jobs and green job vacancies within the 13 labor and workforce investment areas of Tennessee. A focus of the grant is to help workers affected by significant automotive-related restructurings connect to career pathways in green industries. Additionally, the grant will develop an enhanced online self-service labor exchange module to match green job seekers with respective employers.
All the DOL grants are here.
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State unemployment falls slightly
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 3:54 pmTennessee’s unemployment fell 0.2 percentage points in September, with professional services job growth outpacing retail job losses. However, 11,300 people left the state’s work force in the past month, meaning they were no longer counted in the jobless number.
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State jobless number up another tick
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 2:07 pmTennessee’s unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage point in August to 10.8 percent, meaning more than 325,000 Tennesseans are now without work. That’s up 120,000 people from a year ago — a number that does not include the 35,000 people by which the state’s work force has shrunk over the past year.
Jobless rate almost at double digits
Posted on May 21, 2009 at 10:37 pmTennessee’s unemployment rate rose 0.3 percent in April to 9.9 percent. The state’s factory sector has shed more than 40,000 jobs in the past year.
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The tales of woe continue
Posted on March 21, 2009 at 4:02 pmMore and more unemployed are having to take jobs they never imagined taking at this point in their lives:
“I’ve decided to mow yards. I did it in high school and college, figured I’d come out of retirement,” Lewis said.
Whatever it takes, that’s what the Tennessee State Department of Labor said the newly unemployed have been doing to make ends meet - traveling farther, taking more jobs and taking lower paying jobs.
“We’re seeing people with masters and higher degrees working minimum wage jobs - $9 and $10 an hour jobs until the economy turns around,” said Melinda Williams with the Tennessee Department of Labor.
Newly released figures show the unemployment rate in the state has jumped to 9.1 percent - the highest level since 1973.
“Most people we are seeing now have never been unemployed. It is uncharted waters,” Williams said.
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Leaps and bounds
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 11:15 pmTennessee’s unemployment rate jumped a full percentage point from December to January. It now stands at 8.6 percent, up from 5.3 percent a year ago.
December-to-January job gains occurred in professional, scientific, and technical services, which increased by 2,900; repair and maintenance added 200 jobs. Declines included trade, transportation and utilities, down 21,800; administrative, support and waste services were down 14,700, and leisure and hospitality lost 9,600 jobs.
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More worker training cash for Zeledyne
Posted on February 11, 2009 at 12:41 pmThe state is almost doubling the $100,000 grant it initially allocated to cross-train employees of the former Ford auto glass plant. Zeledyne in December furloughed 175 workers.
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Jobless rate jumps
Posted on January 22, 2009 at 10:14 pmTennessee’s December number came in at 7.9 percent, up from 7.0 percent the month before and almost three full points above where it ended 2007.
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Extending unemployment benefits
Posted on November 25, 2008 at 6:16 pmThe President’s decision last week to extend for a second time unemploymen benefits will support about 26,000 Tennesseans, the state labor department says.
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