With the seasonal closing of schools, county unemployment rates for June 2016, released last week, show the rates increased in all 95 Tennessee counties. Cannon County’s unemployment figures showed the rate increased 1.3% from May’s 3.7 percent figure to June’s 5 percent figure. Out of an estimated workforce of 6180 people 5870 were employed while 310 Cannon Countians were unemployed. Dekalb County showed the biggest unemployment figure of all surrounding counties at 6.1 percent, while Warren County came in at 5.3 percent. Unemployment figures for Coffee County was 4.9 percent and Rutherford and Wilson Counties both showed a 4.1 percent unemployment rate. Cannon Counties rate for the month of June last year was at 6.4 percent.
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for June was 4.1 percent, remaining the same from the previous month’s revised rate. The U.S. preliminary rate for June was 4.9 percent, up two tenths of a percentage point from May.
