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 that period, the first contraction in the overall labor force Tennessee has seen outside the coronavirus pandemic in at least a decade…