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

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The region added abouty 3,400 jobs between April 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'z 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics This is the third consecutive month that Austin has outperformedd all of the othet U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,000 or The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 The 0.4 percent increase in job totalse is modest, but still a better showing than cities such as Portlanfd (down 4.7 percent) and N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods producing industries in the Austin area droppedd by 500 jobsin April, a slowdown from the rapied pace of recent losses, according to an analysisz of the data from the Capitapl Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sectord employment is back toits all-time high last seen in October 2008. But another key sectorr for the region, technology, isn't doinvg quite as well. Computer, semiconductotr and other electronic component manufacturing isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductof segment fellto 15,700 back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas cities go, Austin'sa 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe healthiest. Dallas-Forrt Worth stood at 6.6 percent in Aprikl and Houstonat 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio's rate was lowert than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smalled metro areas including McAllen, Brownsvilld and Beaumount all had rates above8 percent.