{"id":1494267,"date":"2026-04-07T05:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494267"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:53:53","slug":"texas-workforce-reports-40000-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494267","title":{"rendered":"East Texas job growth continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1494268\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/texasworkforcecommish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"174\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) reports the state added 40,100 \u2018non-farm jobs\u2019 to the market in January. According to our news partner KETK, this creates a total of 14 million positions for job-seekers and outpaces the nation in job growth rate. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twc.texas.gov\/news\/texas-adds-40100-jobs-january-job-growth-outpaces-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TWC report<\/a>, Tyler has 115,900 workers and Longview has 123,600 workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmith\u00a0County added three jobs in the private sector every day, which outpaced the state and the country last year.\u00a0 We\u2019ve managed to maintain job growth when other communities have struggled,\u201d President of the Tyler Economic Development, Scott Martinez, said.<\/p>\n<p>The leading industries creating jobs in Texas are construction (11,000 new jobs) and medical services (10,000). \u201cThese jobs help our families everywhere. These are people in our community who have opportunities to support themselves with these jobs\u201d, Martinez adds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, economic leaders hope manufacturing jobs will continue to grow for the remainder of 2026. \u201cI\u00a0think\u00a0you\u2019ll\u00a0see some things related to distribution.\u00a0We\u2019ve\u00a0got manufacturing companies that are looking at Tyler,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) reports the state added 40,100 \u2018non-farm jobs\u2019 to the market in January. According to our news partner KETK, this creates a total of 14 million positions for job-seekers and outpaces the nation in job growth rate. According to\u00a0the TWC report, Tyler has 115,900 workers and Longview has 123,600 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1494267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas job growth continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1494484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/texasworkforcecommish.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 06:08:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/04\/texasworkforcecommish.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494267"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495012,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494267\/revisions\/1495012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}