{"id":608738,"date":"2017-04-21T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608738"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T22:53:03","slug":"a-drop-in-area-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608738","title":{"rendered":"A Drop 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 &#8211; Unemployment in Texas went up slightly in March. But in East Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission reports the jobless numbers dropped last month. The state&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 5.0% in March, up slightly from 4.9% in February. But the opposite was true for Tyler and Longview. Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate was 4\/7% last month. That is down from 5.1% in February. But it is slighty above the 4.3% figure in March of last year. Longview&#8217;s unemployment rate went from 6.6% in February to 6.3% last month. That is still above the 5.5% figure in March of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8211; Unemployment in Texas went up slightly in March. But in East Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission reports the jobless numbers dropped last month. The state&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 5.0% in March, up slightly from 4.9% in February. But the opposite was true for Tyler and Longview. Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=608738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Drop 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-608738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 16:34:00","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\/608738","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=608738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608741,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608738\/revisions\/608741"}],"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=608738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}