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Friday, April 17, 1998 Texas unemployment rate down again AUSTIN (AP) -- The Texas unemployment rate dipped two-tenths
of a percentage point while the Abilene area's rate fell one-tenth
in March, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Thursday. "Job growth in Texas remains very strong in the goods-producing
and service-producing sectors," Labor Commissioner T. P.
O'Mahoney said. "Texas employers added 30,000 jobs to their
payrolls in March." The rate for Abilene's metropolitan statistical area dropped
to 3.3 percent from February's 3.4 percent, while the Texas rate
fell to 4.6 percent from the previous month's 4.8 percent figure. The unemployment rate in March 1997 was 5.5 percent. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission continued to have the state's highest
unemployment rate at 17.2 percent. That was down from 19.3 percent unemployment posted in February.
The 2.1 percent drop in that area, though, was the largest drop
among the state's 27 metropolitan statistical areas. Bryan-College Station posted the lowest rate at 1.6 percent
-- down from February's 1.7 percent.
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