{"id":618485,"date":"2017-05-19T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=618485"},"modified":"2017-05-21T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T18:55:50","slug":"unemployment-steady-in-texas-falling-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=618485","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Steady in Texas, Falling in East Texas"},"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 is holding steady. But some East Texas cities have see jobless numbers fall. The Texas unemployment rate held steady during April at 5%. The Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday last month&#8217;s jobless figure copied the March unemployment rate. Nationwide unemployment for April was 4.4%. But it was a different story in Tyler and Longview. Tyler&#8217;s unemployment fell from 5% in March to 4.1% in April. It was 4.1% in April last year. Longview&#8217;s unemployment went from 6.2% in March to 5.7% in April. It was 5.6% in April, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8211; Unemployment in Texas is holding steady. But some East Texas cities have see jobless numbers fall. The Texas unemployment rate held steady during April at 5%. The Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday last month&#8217;s jobless figure copied the March unemployment rate. Nationwide unemployment for April was 4.4%. But it was a different story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=618485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unemployment Steady in Texas, Falling in East Texas<\/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-618485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 14:22:43","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\/618485","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=618485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618510,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618485\/revisions\/618510"}],"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=618485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}