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

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The region added about 3,400 jobs betweejn April 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'e 38 largest cities to post a job gain, new data from the Bureaui of Labor Statistics shows. This is the third consecutivr month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. citiese with labor forces of 750,000 or The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 The 0.4 percent increase in job totala is modest, but still a better showing than citie such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods producingg industries in the Austihn area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofrecent losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capital Area Council of Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service secto employment is back to its all-time high last seen in October 2008. But another key sectoer for the region, technology, isn't doing quitse as well. Computer, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingh isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductotr segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to spring 2006 As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemploymenty 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's at 5.4 Smaller metro areas includingv McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates above 8