AUSTIN – The Texas unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in September after dipping for the 13.5 percent high in April 2020 during the peak of COVID-19 impacts.
The increase was due to the civilian labor force shrinking as the number of individuals actively looking for work contracted, while the unemployed rose.
According to the Texas Workforce Commission, the state added 40,700 nonfarm jobs last month.
The national unemployment rate is 7.7 percent.
Amarillo had the lowest nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the state at 5.1 percent. Odessa had the highest at 13.2 percent.
All employment sectors had seasonally adjusted job losses since September 2019. Mining and logging had the largest job loss with employment falling 22.6 percent. Financial activities had the smallest, falling only 0.3 percent.
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