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

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The region added about 3,400 jobs betweeh April 2008 andApril 2009, makingf it the only one of the nation's 38 largest citiez to post a job gain, new data from the Bureaui of Labor Statistics shows. This is the third consecutivee month that Austin has outperformed all of theothere U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,000 or The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percentg increase in job totalsxis modest, but still a bettedr showing than cities such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goodsx producing industries in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofrecen losses, 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-timer high last seen in October 2008. But another key sectoe for the region, technology, isn't doing quite as Computer, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing isstillk falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 jobs, back to sprinv 2006 totals. As Texax cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percenf in April and Houston at 6.3 Only San Antonio's rate was lower than Austin'e at 5.4 percent. Smallerf metro areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumoungt all had rates above8