{"id":840,"date":"2012-04-05T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2012-04-05T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T21:17:56","slug":"texas-unemployment-continues-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/texas-unemployment-continues-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS  UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES DECLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment continues its decline in Texas for the 6th month in a row, according to the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).\u00a0 Nearly 28,000 jobs were added in February, dropping the state&#8217;s umemployment rate to 7.1%.\u00a0 Unemployment was at 8% February 2011.\u00a0 Eight of the 11 major industries saw growth in February with local governments adding the most, according to SMU economist Bernard Weinstein.\u00a0 This is due to an increase in commercial and infrastructure work.\u00a0 The lowest unemployment numbers are in Midland and Odessa with 3.8 and 4.5, respectively.\u00a0 The highest in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area for unemployment at 10.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment continues its decline in Texas for the 6th month in a row, according to the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).\u00a0 Nearly 28,000 jobs were added in February, dropping the state&#8217;s umemployment rate to 7.1%.\u00a0 Unemployment was at 8% February 2011.\u00a0 Eight of the 11 major industries saw growth in February with local governments adding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}