Lone Star State Adds Over 40,000 Jobs In May

The Dallas Morning News: Texas’ jobs market star is on the rise.  Showing the largest gain in more than 3 years, Texas employers posted big increases in the jobs sector last month, adding some 43,600 jobs.  Although the overall unemployment rate stayed the same at 8.3 percent, employers in nine of the eleven employment categories showed significant payroll expansion.

Among those leaders, professional and business services as well as the leisure and hospitality sectors added nearly 20,000 jobs alone.

Information services and the government sector were the two categories to post losses.  The two combined shed nearly 3,000 workers last month.