News 12 covered several area companies who have announced layoffs. They spoke to CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall about them. “Our prospects over the recent past has been downgraded. We really haven’t been growing as we thought, we’ve been kind of been slowly shrinking our employment for about a year and a half,…
4/24/26: Chattanooga Projected to Gain 3,200 Jobs in 2026, but Recovery Expected to Be Slow
NewsChannel 9 had a story about the most recent forecast of the Chattanooga economy from the CRER: A new report from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Center for Regional Economic Research (CRER) (read it below) projects thousands of new jobs next year, with most of that growth coming in the second half of the…
4/23/26: Job Growth Expected to be Slow in Chattanooga Area
News 12 covered the latest forecast of Chattanooga metro job growth: Dr. Howard Wall of UTC’s Center for Regional for Economic Research says that a recent analysis of job growth over the past 18 months shows that the Chattanooga area has lost nearly 2,000 jobs. He says this is primarily because of losses in the…
4/23/26: New CRER Forecasts for Chattanooga Employment Growth
The CRER provides forecasts of quarterly nonfarm employment growth for the six-county Chattanooga MSA. Our new forecast is for net job gains of 3,200 for 2026 and 6,000 for 2027. These forecasts are a downgrade from our previous release in January, largely because of benchmark revisions that lowered estimates of recent job growth in the…
4/21/26: Chattanooga Jobs Picture Shifts as New Data Shows Losses Instead of Gains
The CRER’s most recent white paper describing the effects of this year’s benchmark revisions was covered by NewsChannel 9. The story provides a good summary of the paper’s findings: New data shows the area has been losing jobs, not gaining them. A report from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Center for Regional Economic Research…