Austin-Round Rock area unemployment dips in April but up from same time last year

The Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Texas, according to a jobs report published by the Texas Workforce Commission. With a 3.2 unemployment rate for April 2017, the Austin-Round Rock MSA had the second lowest unemployment rate for the month. The rate is a .3 percent increase from April 2016 but down nearly a half-percent from the month prior. The downward dip in unemployment results from an influx of 30,400 jobs to the Texas economy during the month of April. The manufacturing industry produced 8,100 of those jobs, and professional and business services […]

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