Data released today (Thursday, July 25, 2019) by the Tennessee Department of Labor indicates unemployment increased in all of Tennessee’s counties during June 2019. Sixty-one counties have unemployment rates below 5 percent, while 34 counties now have unemployment rates at, or above, 5 percent. Locally, the highest unemployment rate is Rhea County at 6.7, followed by Bledsoe at 6.4, Fentress at 5.2 and Morgan County at 5 percent. The unemployment rate in Cumberland and Roane County came in at 4.9 percent, Pickett County is 4.5, and Anderson and White County checked in at 4.4 percent.