Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced Tennessee’s unemployment rate for April was 10.5 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the March rate of 10.6 percent.  
     The April rate last year was 10.5 percent.  The national unemployment rate for April 2010 was 9.9 percent, up from the March rate of 9.7 percent.
     “The unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point from last month and is the same as a year ago,” reported Labor Commissioner James Neeley.  “The good news in this monthly report is that employment growth was very strong.  The unemployment rate stayed about the same because of a substantial increase in the number of people reentering the labor force.”  
     According to the monthly Household Survey, the Tennessee labor force (3,028,500) is the highest since May 2009.  The number of unemployed persons (318,300) is the lowest since March 2009.  

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