TENNESSEE
Percent unemployed getting benefits: 16% (tied, 2nd lowest)
Unemployment rate: 6.3% (19th highest)
Black Unemployment Rate (2013): 15%
Nashville and Memphis rank among 40 of the country’s cities employing the fewest African Americans.
According to MarketWatch, the average unemployment insurance was $232, or just 27.6% of the weekly average wage in Tennessee—both well below the $312 and 33% averages for the nation, respectively.
Only 16% of people who applied for unemployment insurance received it, less than in all but two other states.