Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The region added about 3,400 jobs between April 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'sd 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labor Statisticx shows. This is the third consecutive montj that Austin has outperformed all of theothefr U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for Aprio stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percen t increase in job totalsis modest, but stilkl a better showing than cities such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (downb 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producing industries in the Austijn area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofrecenyt losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitap Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-timd high last seen in October 2008. But anotheer key sector for the region, technology, isn't doing quite as well. semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing isstilll falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 back to spring 2006 As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 perceny unemployment rate was one of the Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houstoh at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio's rate was lowerd than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smalledr metro areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumoun all had rates above8 percent.