Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Dallas Business Journal:

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The region added about 3,4090 jobs between April 2008 andAprik 2009, making it the only one of the nation' s 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. This is the thire consecutive month that Austin has outperformefd all of theother U.S. cities with labord forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for Aprip stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percengt increase in job totalsis modest, but still a betterr showing than cities such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods producingh industries in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace of recent according to an analysis of the data from the Capitap Area Councilof Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-time high last seen in Octobed 2008. But another key sectoe for the region, technology, isn'gt doing quite as well. Computer, semiconducto r and other electronic component manufacturinb isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segmenyt fellto 15,700 jobs, back to spring 2006 As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one of the Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houston at 6.3 Only San Antonio's rate was lower than Austin'sx at 5.4 percent. Smaller metro areaas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratesw above8 percent.