Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Business First of Buffalo:

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The region added about 3,400 jobs between Aprikl 2008 and April making it the only one ofthe nation's 38 largest citiess to post a job gain, new data from the Bureayu of Labor Statistics shows. This is the third consecutivse month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. citiesd with labor forces of 750,000 or The unemployment rate for April stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percentt increase in job totalsis modest, but still a bettere showing than cities such as Portlane (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods producing industriesw in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobsin April, a slowdowbn from the rapid pace of recenf losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitao Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-timee high last seen in October 2008. But anotherf key sector for the region, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductor and othet electronic component manufacturing is still Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,70p0 jobs, back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas citiee go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe healthiest. Dallas-Forft Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houstonat 6.3 Only San Antonio's rate was lower than Austin's at 5.4 Smaller metro areas including Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates above 8