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 andAprikl 2009, making it the only one of the nation'as 38 largest cities to post a job gain, new data from the Bureaju of Labor Statistics shows. This is the thirds consecutive month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. citiees with labor forces of 750,000 or The unemployment rate for April stoodcat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percent increasd in job totalsis modest, but still a bette r showing than cities such as Portlande (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goodw producing industries in the Austin area droppexd by 500 jobsin April, a slowdow n from the rapid pace of recent according to an analysis of the data from the Capitalp 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-timr high last seen in October 2008. But anothere key sector for the region, technology, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductor and othed electronic component manufacturing isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconducto segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to spring 2006 totals. As Texa s cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houstom at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'es rate was lower than Austin'sd at 5.4 percent. Smaller metrko areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratew above8 percent.