{"id":627787,"date":"2017-06-16T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627787"},"modified":"2017-06-17T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T20:55:57","slug":"unemployment-falls-in-tyler-and-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627787","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Falls in Tyler and Longview"},"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; Unemployment numbers are out for May and Tyler is beating the state trend. Labor officials say the Texas unemployment rate slipped to 4.8% in May. That compares to 5% statewide unemployment during April. The nationwide unemployment rate in May was 4.3%. Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate last month was 4.1% It was 4.4% in April and 4\/1% in May of last year. Longview&#8217;s unemployment rate for May was 5.4%, down from 5\/7% in April. It was 5.7% in May of last year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Commission officials say the Texas economy expanded in May with the addition of 14,800 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs. Texas employers have created 266,600 jobs over the past year. <\/p>\n<p>A commission statement says Amarillo had the lowest unemployment in Texas last month at 3.1%. TWC figures show the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area had the state&#8217;s highest jobless rate during May at 7.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; Unemployment numbers are out for May and Tyler is beating the state trend. Labor officials say the Texas unemployment rate slipped to 4.8% in May. That compares to 5% statewide unemployment during April. The nationwide unemployment rate in May was 4.3%. Tyler&#8217;s unemployment rate last month was 4.1% It was 4.4% in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unemployment Falls in Tyler and Longview<\/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-627787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:19:23","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\/627787","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=627787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627790,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627787\/revisions\/627790"}],"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=627787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}