Thursday, March 5, 2009

Unemployment hits 6.5 percent in Houston

New figures from the Texas Workforce Commission show unemployment is continuing to rise in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area.

According to the report released Thursday, 183,000 people in the area were without jobs in January — an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent — compared with 155,700, or 5.6 percent, in December 2008.

The figures are a significant increase from January 2008, when 125,900 people, or 4.6 percent of the work force, were registered as unemployed.


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