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

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The region added about 3,400 jobs betweebn April 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'd 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labo Statistics shows. This is the thir consecutive month that Austin has outperformed all of theotherf U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for April stood at 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percent increass in job totalsis modest, but stil l a better showing than cities such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods producingh industries in the Austinb area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace of recent according to an analysis of the data from the Capitalk 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-timr high last seen in October 2008. But anotherd key sector for the region, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductore and other electronic component manufacturing isstillk falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segmengt fellto 15,700 jobs, back to sprint 2006 totals. As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percenty unemployment rate was one ofthe healthiest. Dallas-Fort Worthj stood at 6.6 percenty in April and Houstonat 6.3 Only San Antonio's rate was lowe r than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smaller metr o areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratez above8 percent.