TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 15, 2025

After several months of steady rates, Tennessee’s unemployment rate edged up slightly in July, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The state’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate was 3.6%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from June. A year ago, the rate was 3.4%. Tennessee’s rate remains below the U.S. rate, which was 4.2% in July, unchanged from a year earlier.