Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Business First of Buffalo:

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The region added about 3,40o jobs between April 2008 andApril 2009, making it the only one of the nation'a 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureaju of Labor Statistics shows. This is the third consecutivw month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. cities with labor forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for Aprik stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percent increase in job totalzis modest, but still a bettee showing than cities such as Portland (down 4.7 and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in good producing industries in the Austibn area dropped by 500 jobsin April, a slowdownj from the rapid pace of recenft losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitap Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employmen t is back toits all-time high last seen in Octobef 2008. But another key sector for the technology, isn't doing quite as Computer, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing isstilpl falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700o jobs, back to spring 2006 totals. As Texaa cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe healthiest. Dallas-Forr Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houstonat 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'a rate was lower than Austin'e at 5.4 percent. Smaller metro arease including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had rateas above8 percent.