For example, the Hamblen County rate is up to 6.3 percent while the city of Morristown's unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent.
As the Sun reports:
• Cocke County, 7.4 percent, up from 7.1 percent in October;
• Hamblen County, 6.3 percent, up from 6.2 percent in October;
• Hawkins County, 6.0 percent, up from 5.2 percent in October.
• Sullivan County, 4.7 percent, up from 4.5 percent in October;
• Unicoi County, 6.2 percent, up from 5.6 percent in October;
• Washington County, 4.7 percent, up from 4.6 percent in October.
Nearby, Smaller Cities
Among nearby, smaller Tennessee cities, the following were their unemployment rates in November:
• Bristol, 5.1 percent, up from 4.9 percent in October;
• Johnson City, 5.2 percent, up from 4.9 percent in October;
• Kingsport, 7.2 percent, up from 6.9 percent in October; and
• Morristown, 9.1 percent, up from 9.0 percent in October.
Among Tennessee’s major metropolitan areas, these were their November jobless rates:• Knox County (Knoxville), 4.4 percent, up from 4.1 percent in October;
• Hamilton County (Chattanooga), 4.8 percent, up from 4.7 percent in October;
• Davidson County (Nashville), 4.9 percent, up from 4.7 percent in October; and
• Shelby County (Memphis), 6.3 percent, up from 6.0 percent in October.
What are you talking about the economy is the best it has ever been to hear the folks who keep tabs speak. You must be one of thoes folks the president called a defeatists. Also I saw where this years Christmas sales were up almost ten percent, but I missed the part where prices were up about twenty percent. I am so confused Joe...so confused
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