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Longview area adds 2,700 jobs
In April the Longview area economy recorded the lowest unemployment rate for that month in about 30 years, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
The three-county Longview Metropolitan Statistical Area has created about 2,700 jobs in the past year and posted an unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in April, according to Roni Downey, labor market analyst for the state agency. That figure reflects improvement from both March, when the rate was 3.7 percent, and from April 2007, when the area’s unemployment rate was 3.5 percent.
The Longview MSA includes Gregg, Upshur and Rusk counties.
Gregg County also posted good news with the April unemployment rates, Downey said. Gregg County had an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent in April which is down from the 3.4 percent in April 2007, and the 3.5 percent the county had in March, she said.
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By O. Nix
May 18, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
This all sounds good but I question how many people dropped out of the job search. Still adding jobs is good. Though I’m sure many of them are low pay jobs at least the people are working. InfoWorthSharing