By AP
Nashville, TN – Tennessee's unemployment rate for September has dropped below the national rate for the first time in six years. Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner James Neely says the state's unemployment rate for September was almost 9.5%, down 2 tenths of a percent from August. The national rate was 9.6%.
Neely says the last time the state rate was below the national was in July 2004.
Job gains in Tennessee were in government; private educational and health services; and administrative, support and waste services. Job losses were in leisure and hospitality, federal government and wholesale trade.