By MARIA M. PEROTIN Star-Telegram staff writer High oil prices and a depressed housing market may have the national economy in the ditch, but the Texas economy is holding up just fine. In fact, joblessness fell to a record-low 4.1 percent in Texas last month as employers added 15,400 jobs,...
San Antonio Express-News: San Antonio’s job market, like Texas’, stayed ahead of the turmoil rocking the national labor market in April as employers added 3,700 positions for the month and 19,200 for the 12 months ending in April. In addition, the area unemployment rate continued to drop, hitting...
By MARIA M. PEROTIN Star-Telegram staff writer High oil prices and a depressed housing market may have the national economy in the ditch, but the Texas economy is holding up just fine. In fact, joblessness fell to a record-low 4.1 percent in Texas last month as employers added 15,400 jobs,...
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 17--Texas employers added 15,400 nonfarm jobs in April, a bit lower than the monthly average of 19,900 so far this year, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Meanwhile, the state's unemployment rate fell again to its record low of 4.1 percent, the same rate...
By MARIA M. PEROTIN mperotin@star-telegram.com Joblessness fell to 4.1 percent in Texas last month, matching a record low for a state that’s bucking nationwide economic trends. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was down from 4.3 percent in March and from 4.4 percent in April 2007....