Every one of Tennessee's 95 counties posted a lower unemployment rate in September than in August, and 93 had rates below 5%, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday, Oct. 22.
Unemployment rates fell from August to September in all 18 of Michigan's labor market areas, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget said Thursday, Oct. 22.
Unemployment rates fell from a year earlier in 11 of Illinois' 12 metropolitan areas in September, but the one exception was the largest: the Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg area, where the rate rose 0.4 percentage point to 4.5%, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday, Oct. 22.
Virginia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 3.6% in September, unchanged from August and 0.2 percentage point higher than a year earlier, Virginia Works, the state's workforce development agency, reported Wednesday, Oct. 21. The national rate was 4.2%.
