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12-28-2008, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Irvine, CA to Keller, TX
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Texas, Land of Plenty? At least as far as jobs go.
Among the 310 metropolitan areas for which nonfarm payroll data were available in October 2008, 125 metropolitan areas reported over-the- year employment gains, 169 reported losses, and 16 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increase was recorded in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (+52,300), followed by Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+50,000), Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va. (+35,700), and San Antonio, Texas (+17,900). The largest over-theyear percentage gain in employment was reported in Grand Junction, Colo. (+3.9 percent ), followed by McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas (+3.6 percent), Laredo, Texas (+3.2 percent), and College Station-Bryan, Texas (+2.6 percent). (See table 3.)
I am glad I left CA for TX when I did. |
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