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NASHVILLE (March 26, 2020) — Tennessee experienced an unprecedented spike in new initial unemployment claims according to data released this morning by the United States Department of Labor.
For the week ending March 21, 2020, Tennesseans filed 39,096 initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits. The week prior, the state received 2,702 new unemployment claims. The latest figure represents a nearly 20 fold increase in week-to-week claims.
Unemployment rates in Carroll County have increased from 4.7 percent in December 2019 with 567 unemployed of the 12,179 labor force to 5.8 percent in January, with 701 unemployed out of 12,069 laborers.
Henry County unemployment rates have increased from 4.1 percent, 610 unemployed of a 14,775 labor force in December 2019 to 5.3 percent, 757 unemployed of the 14,282 labor force in January.
Weakley County’s rate increased from 3.3 percent, 582 unemployed of the 16,762 labor force in December 2019 to 4.1 percent, 657 unemployed of 16,140 in the labor force in January.
Nationwide, Americans filed 3,283,000 new unemployment claims, an increase of 3,001,000 from the previous week’s revised national level.
Week ending March 21, 2020, at a glance:
New: 39,096