Tennessee unemployment claims top 899K since March; 7.7K new week-to-week claims
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — (UPDATED: 10-29-20)
New week-to-week Tennessee unemployment claims have decreased slightly.
Last week, the Tennessee Department of Labor reports 7,770 new claims were filed in the state. That's down a couple thousand claims from the week before. The state says there have been 899,368 claims since mid-March. Click here for a clickable map by county.
Both Gov. Lee and Nashville Mayor Cooper said they will not close more businesses.
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The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce said just last week, there were 70,982 continuing unemployment claims in the state. Here's a breakdown of the numbers:
- March 14: 2,702 new claims, 16.342 continuing claims
- March 21: 39,096 new claims, 16,098 continuing claims
- March 28: 94,492 new claims. 34,570 continuing claims
- April 4: 116,141 new claims, 112,438 continuing claims
- April 11: 74,772 new claims, 199,910 continuing claims
- April 18: 68,968 new claims, 267,053 continuing claims
- April 25: 43,792 new claims, 324,543 continuing claims
- May 2: 37,319 new claims, 321,571 continuing claims
- May 9: 29,308 new claims, 325,095 continuing claims
- May 16: 28,692 new claims, 314,487 continuing claims
- May 23: 26,041 new claims, 310,126 continued claims
- May 30: 22,784 new claims, 302,260 continued claims
- June 6: 21,417 new claims, 292,234 continued claims
- June 13: 19,925 new claims, 280,593 continuing claims
- June 20: 21,155 new claims, 266,596 continuing claims
- June 27: 22,256 new claims. 262,224 continuing claims
- July 4: 25,843 new claims, 256,645 continuing claims
- July 11: 22,431 new claims, 251,924 continuing claims
- July 18: 25,794 new claims, 243,405 continuing claims
- July 25: 19,461 new claims, 242,397 continuing claims
- Aug. 1: 11,690 new claims; 224,093 continuing claims
- Aug. 8: 10,036 new claims, 208,810 continuing claims
- Aug. 15: 13,806 new claims, 204,726 continuing claims
- Aug. 22: 10,998 new claims, 191,204 continuing claims
- Aug. 29: 12,035 new claims, 184,781 continuing claims
- Sept. 5: 11,706 new claims, 176,388 continuing claims
- Sept. 12: 10,771 new claims, 163,791 continuing claims
- Sept. 19: 11,313 new claims, 152,195 continuing claims
- Sept. 26: 9,802 new claims, 138,727 continuing claims
- Oct. 3: 9,839 continuing claims, 125,238 continuing claims
- Oct. 10: 10,145 continuing claims, 90,507 continuing claims
- Oct. 17: 9,873 continuing claims, 77,740 continuing claims
- Oct. 24: 7.770 continuing claims, 70,982 continuing claims
Data shows some of the hardest hit areas of unemployment include northern Middle Tennessee, the greater Memphis area and East Tennessee.
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