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07/12/11 Job growth remains high in Fort Bend County, and the unemployment rate continues to drop, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Texas Workforce Commission.
06/17/11 Military contractor CSC Applied Technology Group notified the Texas Workforce Commission of potential job changes for more than 500 employees. The contractor is competing for a new two-year contract for the U.S. Air Force.
06/17/11 The Texas unemployment rate held steady in May, matching April's 8 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission announced Friday.
06/10/11 More than six hours before former Ronald Reagan staffer and Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken was to speak on the Newton Campus of Des Moines Area Community College, members of the Boone Rotary Club were given a preview as Pauken spoke to the group about the task of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
05/21/11 The city's unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) dropped from 7.1 percent in March to 6.8 percent in April, according to the monthly report from the Texas Workforce Commission. In April 2010, it was 7.6 percent.
05/12/11 Due to the recent layoff of employees at United States Aluminum Corporation of Texas, RACO and International Extrusion, the Texas Workforce Commission will have its emergency mobile unit in Waxahachie on Wednesday.
03/28/11 The Henderson County unemployment rate inched downward in February, the Texas Workforce Commission revealed Friday. The slight improvement was from 8.9 percent in January to 9.8 percent for the latest month. The dip followed the usual post-Christmas spike of unemployment in the county.
03/10/11 Unemployment numbers are back on the rise, according to the latest numbers released Thursday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
02/07/11 Lone Star Corporate College has been named as a provider of the Texas Workforce Commission Skills for Small Business program, which gives local businesses money to educate their workers.
01/09/11 Houston CPA Society Tax Expo: Two-day conference. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Omni Houston Hotel, Four Riverway. Keynote speakers: Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, on Monday; Dr. Leonard Zwelling, professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, on Tuesday.
12/22/10 After a three-month slide, unemployment in Gillespie County reversed its course and jumped back up to 4.7 percent in November, the Texas Workforce Commission has reported.
12/19/10 Nacogdoches city and county unemployment rates climbed last month, exceeding the November rates of one year ago, according to information released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
12/18/10 City and county unemployment rates rose in November, increasing by three-tenths of a percentage point, according to a report from the Texas Workforce Commission. For Denton County, the unemployment rate rose to 7.5 percent, up from 7.2 percent in October. In the city of Denton, the rate rose from October's 6.3 percent to 6.6 percent for November.
11/24/10 For the second straight month, Gillespie County experienced its lowest unemployment rate in over a year, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.
11/21/10 LUBBOCK - Lubbock's unemployment rate for October stood at 5.9 percent, up slightly from September's 5.8 percent, according to figures released Friday morning by the Texas Workforce Commission.
11/20/10 Texas employers expanded payrolls by 47,900 jobs in October, the largest monthly increase since May, but the state jobless rate remained unchanged at 8.1 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday.
11/19/10 Unemployment is up in Central Texas, according to the Texas Workforce Commission's release on Friday.
11/19/10 Unemployment held steady in Midland, Odessa and across Texas in October, according to figures released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
11/11/10 Part of a $2.5 million Skills Development Fund grant from the Texas Workforce Commission will go to three Tarrant County hospitals and Tarrant County College District to provide job training.
10/22/10 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas unemployment rate dropped slightly to 8.1 percent in September, fueled by modest job growth. Numbers released by the Texas Workforce Commission on Friday read more
09/23/10 Rusk County's unemployment rate edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.9 percent in August, according to a statewide report released Tuesday by the Texas Workforce Commission. | 
