The state employment report comes two weeks after the most recent national data showing America’s employers delivered a healthy month of hiring in February,...
Job growth was driven by the state’s service-producing sector, with business services and private education and health services leading the way, according to data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.Job growth was driven by the state’s service-producing sector, with business services and private education and health services leading the way, according to data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission. Those employers accounted for just over 20,000 of the jobs increase.
The adjusted civilian labor force grew over the month by 25,800 people to reach 15,169,200 in February.Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas again smashes all previous records for total jobs, the number of Texans working and the size of the Texas labor force.“Texas continues to dominate the nation in job creation because we’ve built a framework that allows free enterprise to flourish and hardworking Texans to succeed,” Abbott said in a statement.
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