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June 03, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Metropolitan area | Employees on nonfarm payrolls, percent change, April 2010 to April 2011 (p) |
Unemployment rate | |
---|---|---|---|
April 2010 | April 2011 (p) | ||
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, Arkansas |
1.7 | 6.7 | 6.5 |
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, Louisiana |
0.9 | 6.5 | 7.2 |
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
-1.7 | 8.3 | 7.2 |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
1.8 | 6.3 | 4.5 |
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas |
2.9 | 8.1 | 7.7 |
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas |
2.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 |
Footnotes: |
These data are featured in the TED article, Employment and unemployment in the Southwest, April 2011.