Texas employers cut payrolls by 23,900 jobs in December after two months of adding jobs, and the state unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent from 8 percent in November, according to data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission. "Texas...
Texas employers expanded payrolls by 17,300 jobs in November, the second straight month in which the state gained jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 8 percent from 8.3 percent in October, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday. The November...
Texas employers expanded payrolls by 41,700 jobs in October, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday - a significant piece of good economic news after a year of nearly uninterrupted monthly job losses. But state officials cautioned that a month of...
Oops. There's a glitch in the latest unemployment benefits extension, passed by Congress on Nov. 6. Here's what The New York Times has to say: About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress...
Texas employers cut payrolls by 44,700 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8 percent in August, the Texas Workforce Commission said today. "The Texas job market continued to tighten as most industries experienced job...
Unemployment in Texas rose in August and the state lost jobs, though joblessness was better than the rest of the country. The Texas Workforce Commission said Friday in a press release that unemployment rose to 8 percent in August from...
Texas added 37,900 payroll jobs in July, the Texas Workforce Commission said this morning. That's the state's first net monthly employment gain since October 2008. The workforce commission said there was strong job growth in professional and business services, education...
Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken is starting a blog, Texas2Work.com, which he calls a "first of its kind in Texas state government." The blog's goal is to help job-seekers, employers and the public stay informed about the economy. "This...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to release its July jobs report on Friday, and a closely-watched estimate of last month's private-sector job losses came out this morning. Automatic Data Processing Inc., a payroll processing giant, says the...
State job losses accelerated in June, as Texas employers slashed payrolls by 40,600, according to data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission. The Texas unemployment rate rose to 7.5 percent in June, the highest rate in more than 16...
The June U.S. unemployment rate came in worse than expected at 9.5 percent and Texas may be getting its share of those bigger job losses Texas' June labor report won't be out until mid-month. In May, the Texas unemployment rate...
Texas employers cut payrolls by another 24,700 non-farm jobs in May, the state's seventh consecutive month of job losses, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday. The Texas unemployment rate jumped to 7.1 percent in May from a revised 6.6 percent...
The number of people receiving unemployment insurance fell by 148,000 in the week ending June 6, in a piece of surprisingly good news about the U.S. economy. Bloomberg says it's another piece of "evidence the job market is starting to...
When Dallas Fed economist Keith Phillips told me he expected the state to lose some 296,000 jobs this year, the number struck me as high. But Keith knows as much about the Texas economy as anyone, and after I talked...
The Texas Workforce Commission sent out its latest list of layoffs today. Several notices jumped out at me: Chase Home Lending, a unit of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., is closing a Fort Worth office on Frye Road, laying...
The Texas Workforce Commission sent out a notice today alerting Texas employers that nearly $154 million in tax credits are available to companies that hire workers from certain demographics: "It's an especially good time for employers to take advantage...
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