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Article: Rate of Job Growth in Fort Worth, Texas, Area Is Healthy but Slowing.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 16, 1998
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 16--Since January 1991, the Fort Worth-Arlington and Dallas metropolitan areas have added more than 600,000 nonfarm jobs, a 30 percent increase. That's more jobs than the state's largest city and its capital together created.
But the mighty job growth that has defined this decade in the Metroplex appears to be slowing against the backdrop of a national economic slowdown, economic woes in Asia and Russia, and the falling value of the Mexican peso.
Fort Worth-Arlington's 3.4 percent job growth rate from September 1997 to last month was down from the year before, as was Dallas' 3.8 percent rate, according ...
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