Article: Beaumont, Texas-Area Jobless Rate Increases.

By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 20--BEAUMONT, Texas--The number of Southeast Texans working remained the same in March, but the unemployment rate increased as more residents resumed searching for work, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Thursday.

March's jobless rate inched up to 6.9 percent from February's revised 6.5 percent, the commission reported.

The new figures reflect a statewide trend of softening in job growth, but the overall indication still is for a healthy economy, said Robert Crawley, labor market analyst with the workforce commission in Austin.

Statewide, the ...

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