Unemployment

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- The Tennessee Department of Labor has released the county level unemployment numbers for December and Williamson County is…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP/WMOT) — A new nation-wide report shows two-thirds of the college class of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — State labor officials have begun enforcing new unemployment requirements passed by the Legislature.WMOT-FM (http://bit.ly/VRBvTq )…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's unemployment rate rose slightly in August to 8.5 percent, the fourth consecutive month there’s been an increase.Labor…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- The Tennessee Department of Labor has released the county-level unemployment numbers for July.The state unemployment rate…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- Tennessee’s unemployment rate rose sharply in July.Joblessness jumped three tenths of one percent to 8.4 percent, pushing it…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- More than 48,000 Tennesseans could lose their extended unemployment benefits by the end of the year.As the recession…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP/WMOT) — Good news on the jobs front as Tennessee’s March unemployment rate dipped just below 8 percent.Jeff Hentschell with the…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) – WMOT News is looking at sectors of the Tennessee economy that have prospered in hard times in a series of stories we’re…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- There are indications that construction in Tennessee is starting to rebound.Unemployment in the construction trades fell in…