{"id":492315,"date":"2016-05-20T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492315"},"modified":"2016-05-21T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:52:55","slug":"492315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492315","title":{"rendered":"Tyler&#8217;s Unemployment Continues to Be Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Texas-Workforce-Commission.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Texas-Workforce-Commission.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Workforce Commission\" width=\"95\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-345094\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate continues to be better that the state and national numbers. Tyler&#8217;s April unemployment rate was 4.1% That is down from the 4.3% rate in March and is the same as April of last year. Longview had a 5.4% unemployment rate last month, which is the same as the March figure and just over one 1% higher than March, 2015. The Texas unemployment rate in April was 4.4%, up slightly from the March figure. The national unemployment rate is 5%.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Texas employers expanded their payrolls in April with the addition of  8,300 seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs. The state has added jobs in 12 of the last 13 months. Commission figures show Amarillo had the lowest unemployment rate in Texas last month at 2.7%, followed by the Austin-Round Rock area. The state&#8217;s highest jobless rate for April was at 7.2% in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate continues to be better that the state and national numbers. Tyler&#8217;s April unemployment rate was 4.1% That is down from the 4.3% rate in March and is the same as April of last year. Longview had a 5.4% unemployment rate last month, which is the same as the March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=492315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler&#8217;s Unemployment Continues to Be Low<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 01:19:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492486,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315\/revisions\/492486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}