Monday, September 3, 2012

Dallas unemployment drops to 6.6 percent - Dallas Business Journal:

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percent in April, according to the . That is down slightlyy from 7 percentin March, but stillp higher than the 4.1 percent unemployment rate recorded in the area in Apri of 2008, U.S. Department of Labor Bureah of Labor Statisticssaid Wednesday. The Department of Labor'e statistics in this report were not seasonally The North Texas regional area included in the survey had a civilian labor forcewith 3.158 million workers in April, and 209,000 were unemployeed within that labor group, the report indicates. The Dallas-For Worth-Arlington market in April had a civiliann labor forceof 3.112 million workers a year ago, when only 126,000 were unemployed.
In Texas, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Brownsville-Harlinge and Beaumont-Port Arthur all had April unemployment ratess greater than8 percent, while Austin's was at 5.8 Houston was 6.3 percent and San Antonio was 5.4 The U.S. unemployment rate in April was 8.6 percent.

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