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Texas unemployment hits new lowTexas unemployment hits new lowhttps://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=212852018-10-19T05:00:00Z2018-10-19T16:00:00Z

​​​​​​​​​AUSTIN – ​​Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in September, setting a new record for the lowest unemployment rate recorded in four decades.

According to data from the Texas Workforce Commission, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 3.9 percent in August 2018.​​​​

The Texas economy added 15,600 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs last month, marking 27​​​ consecutive months of growth.

​Over the year, the state added 402,500 jobs for an annual employment growth rate of 3.3 percent.

The Texas metro with the lowest nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate was Midland at 2.2 percent. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission had the highest at 6.2​ percent.

​The mining and logging industry saw the largest seasonally adjusted growth in employment from September 2017 to September ​2018, growing 15.9​ percent. The information industry was the only one to lose jobs with employment dropping 2.9 percent over the year.​​

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