Texas Job Market Grew in July, but So Did Unemployment

For the tenth consecutive month the state of Texas has seen job growth. 29,300 jobs were added in July, bringing Texas’s total nonfarm jobs to 10,619,800 jobs. Despite this job growth, unemployment grew by .2 percent to 8.4 percent in Texas. That still remains below the national unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. Lubbock’s unemployment rate in July was 7.2, up .3 percent from July of 2010. Midland had the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 5.1 percent. Amarillo came in second with 6.2 percent and Odessa had the third lowest unemployment at 6.8 percent.