{"id":1159,"date":"2014-01-17T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2014-01-17T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:10:06","slug":"texas-job-growth-staying-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/texas-job-growth-staying-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS JOB GROWTH STAYING STRONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas economy gained 2.5% from November 2012 to November 2013, but 1.7% for the United States, according to the Real Estate Center at TX A&amp;M.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s nongovernment sector grew to 2.8% compared to 2.1% nationwide.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s actual unemployment rate was 5.8%.\u00a0 Midland has the lowest unemployment rate, followed by Odessa, Amarillo, Abilene and Lubbock.\u00a0 All Texas metro areas except Wichita Falls and Texarkana had more jobs as well.\u00a0 Texas&#8217; professional and business services industry ranked first in job creation.\u00a0 Tyler and East Texas are DEFINITELY included in the uptick of jobs, but lower employment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas economy gained 2.5% from November 2012 to November 2013, but 1.7% for the United States, according to the Real Estate Center at TX A&amp;M.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s nongovernment sector grew to 2.8% compared to 2.1% nationwide.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s actual unemployment rate was 5.8%.\u00a0 Midland has the lowest unemployment rate, followed by Odessa, Amarillo, Abilene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}