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

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The region added about 3,40p0 jobs between April 2008 and April making it the only one ofthe nation's 38 largestt cities to post a job gain, new data from the Bureauu of Labor Statistics shows. This is the third consecutive month that Austin has outperformed all of theothere U.S. cities with labo forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percen increase in job totals is but still a better showing than citiews such asPortland (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (dowbn 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producing industries in the Austin area droppedx by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace of recent according to an analysis of the data from the Capital Area Counciof Governments. Retail, hotel, and restauranft jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business servicse sector employment is back toits all-times high last seen in October 2008. But another key sector for the technology, isn't doing quite as Computer, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing isstilll falling. Jobs in the semiconducto segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to sprinh 2006 totals. As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percenyt in April and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'sx rate was lower than Austin'ss at 5.4 percent. Smaller metro areas including Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates above8 percent.