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

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The region added about 3,4009 jobs between April 2008 andApriol 2009, making it the only one of the nation'sd 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Laborf Statistics shows. This is the third consecutive montb that Austin has outperformed all of theothetr U.S. cities with labodr forces of 750,000 or more. The unemploymenyt rate for April stoodat 5.8 The 0.4 percent increass in job totals is modest, but still a better showiny than cities such as Portlans (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producinyg industries in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofrecentr losses, according to an analysisx of the data from the Capital Area Council of Governments. hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-timee high last seen in October 2008. But anothedr key sector for the region, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductor and otheer electronic component manufacturing is still Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas cities go, Austin'ws 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in Apripl and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio's rate was lowet than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smaller metro areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratea above8 percent.