The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development released October unemployment figures for the state of Tennessee and Hamilton County on Monday.
In Hamilton County, unemployment rose slightly by 0.1% between September and October to 8.8%. 14,450 workers filed for unemployment in the month of October out of a labor force of 165,030. Unemployment in the Chattanooga, TN-GA Metro Statistical Area dropped by 0.1%, however, to 8.9%. The decrease came as a result of improvements in the Georgia portion of the MSA.
Statewide, unemployment remained at 10.5% between September and October. In October 2008, the state's unemployment rate was 6.9%. And throughout the United States, unemployment rose to 10.2% in the same time period.
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