{"id":595243,"date":"2017-03-10T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=595243"},"modified":"2017-03-13T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:18:30","slug":"a-slight-uptick-in-area-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=595243","title":{"rendered":"A Slight Uptick In Area Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/texas-workforce-commision1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/texas-workforce-commision1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-359708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/texas-workforce-commision1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/texas-workforce-commision1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/texas-workforce-commision1.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; The state&#8217;s unemployment rate is holding steady. In East Texas, it is going up slightly. The Texas Workforce Commission reports the state&#8217;s unemployment rate in January held at 4.8%. The January number is from the latest statewide reporting period by the commission. Nationwide unemployment during February, the latest U.S. reporting period, was 4.7%. In East Texas, Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate went up to 4.7%. It had been 4.3% in December and January of Last year. Longview&#8217;s jobless total in January was 6.6%. It was 5.9% in December.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo and Lubbock had the lowest unemployment in Texas during January at 3.4%, according to a commission statement. The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area had the state&#8217;s highest jobless rate in January at 9%.<\/p>\n<p>Commission Chairman Andres Alcantar says Texas started 2017 on a high note, in terms of workforce, by adding 51,300 jobs in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; The state&#8217;s unemployment rate is holding steady. In East Texas, it is going up slightly. The Texas Workforce Commission reports the state&#8217;s unemployment rate in January held at 4.8%. The January number is from the latest statewide reporting period by the commission. Nationwide unemployment during February, the latest U.S. reporting period, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=595243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Slight Uptick In Area Unemployment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":359708,"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-595243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 07:48:30","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\/595243","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=595243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595245,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595243\/revisions\/595245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}