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

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The region added abouy 3,400 jobs between April 2008 andAprik 2009, making it the only one of the nation'z 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistic shows. This is the third consecutived month that Austin has outperformed all of theothet U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,0009 or more. The unemployment rate for April stoodfat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percent increase in job totals is but still a better showing than cities such asPortlane (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producing industries in the Austin area droppefd by 500 jobsin April, a slowdown from the rapid pace of recenft losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitak Area Council of Governments. Retail, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-time high last seen in Octobet 2008. But another key sector for the technology, isn't doing quits as well. Computer, semiconductor and other electronic componentt manufacturing isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,70o jobs, back to spring 2006 As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one of the Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in Aprikl and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio's rate was lowetr than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smaller metri areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates above8