Tyler’s Unemployment Rate Up Slightly

AUSTIN – There has been a slight increase in the area’s unemployment rates. Tyler’s unemployment rate for July is placed at 4.9%. The report, from the Texas Workforce Commission, says this is the same unemployment rate from July of last year. But it is up .2% from the June figure. Longview’s unemployment rate for July was 6.8%. It was 6.5% in Longview in June and 5.6% in July of last year. The state’s unemployment rate is 4.6%. The national unemployment rate is the same as Tyler’s, 4.9%.