Published: 20 June 2014 09:47 AM
Texas still leads the nation in producing jobs. Texas employers added 56,400 jobs in May, the most in the nation, figures from the Labor Department showed today.
Payrolls climbed in 36 U.S. states in May and the unemployment rate fell in 20, showing the labor market continued to strengthen across the nation.
Texas led all gainers followed by Pennsylvania with 24,700 more jobs, the Labor Department reported.
A total of 383,100 jobs were added in Texas in the past 12 months, making it the largest such job increase in the state in nearly 17 years, the Texas Workforce Commission reported.
The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in May, down from 5.2 percent in April.
Lowest Unemployment
Midland, Texas, had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.3 percent, while Yuma, Arizona, had the largest year-over-year unemployment rate decrease in April, with joblessness falling 3 percentage points.
Highest Unemployment
The Yuma area also had the highest unemployment rate in April at 23.8 percent.
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