Austin area records state’s lowest unemployment rate as Texas adds 210,200 jobs in 2016 Statewide job growth continued an upward trend through the end of 2016, with year-over-year data showing an estimated 210,200 seasonally adjusted jobs gained since December 2015, according to a Texas Workforce Commission [TWC] report released today. The Austin-Round Rock, Lubbock, and Amarillo Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or MSAs, recorded the month’s lowest unemployment rates among Texas MSAs with a non-seasonally adjusted rate of 3.2 percent, according to the report.
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