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TEXAS LABOR MARKET REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 2017
T
he Texas Monthly Labor Market Review brings you the most current labor market highlights and happenings across the Lone Star State. The information that follows is produced and published on a monthly basis and includes data on nonagricultural job trends, the labor force, job postings, and other relevent indicators for both the state and sub-state areas. Additional data and historical information is available on our website: Tracer2.com.
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AUGUST 2017 MONTHLY INDICATORS INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT
CES program
5,500
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
LAUS program Page 5
INITIAL CLAIMS
ONLINE JOB ADS
HWOL Page 8
0.1%
7,463
More Indicators Page 10
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32,730
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Statewide Industry Employment (Seasonally Adjusted)
T
otal Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment rose by 5,500 jobs in August for the weakest monthly job gain since August 2016. The Goods-Producing sector provided all the lift with a gain of 5,800 jobs while Service-Providing sector employment fell for the second time in 2017 with a loss of 300 jobs. Job growth since January
Industry
Aug 2017
equaled 142,400 positions and marked the fastest pace of growth over this timeframe since 2014. Annual employment growth totaled 298,600 jobs added since August 2016 and equaled a 2.5 percent annual growth rate—more than double the rate set the previous year. The annual growth rate has been above 2.0 percent for six consecutive months.
Monthly Annual Annual % Change Change Change
12,333,900
5,500 298,600
2.5
10,374,700
4,400 270,800
2.7
1,836,100
5,800
80,300
4.6
Mining & Logging
243,900
1,000
29,500
13.8
Construction
714,800
2,600
15,200
2.2
Manufacturing
877,400
2,200
35,600
4.2
-300 218,300
2.1
Total Nonagricultural Private Goods-Producing
Service-Providing Trade, Transportation & Utilities
10,497,800 2,452,500
9,100
28,200
1.2
Information
191,400
-1,900
-10,700
-5.3
Financial Activities
757,800
-400
23,700
3.2
Professional & Business Services
1,679,400
-900
47,900
2.9
Education & Health Services
1,686,600
-2,200
46,300
2.8
Leisure & Hospitality
1,328,700
1,400
34,600
2.7
442,200
-6,500
20,500
4.9
1,959,200
1,100
27,800
1.4
Other Services Government
Highlights
• Trade, Transportation, and
Utilities employment grew at a 1.2 percent annual rate as an over-the-year decline in Retail Trade employment continued to drag on industry growth.
• Construction
industry employment has grown in nine of the past 12 months while adding 15,200 jobs over the year.
• Manufacturing
employment grew at 4.2 percent over the year, representing the industry’s highest annualized growth rate since March 2012.
Total Nonagricultural Jobs 80,000
5.0%
60,000
4.0% 3.0%
40,000
2.0%
20,000
1.0%
0
0.0%
‐20,000
‐1.0% ‐2.0%
‐40,000
‐3.0%
‐60,000
‐4.0% ‐5.0%
‐80,000
OTM Change
OTY % Change
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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Metro Areas (Seasonally Adjusted)
Metro Areas Abilene MSA Amarillo MSA Austin-Round Rock MSA Beaumont-Port Arthur MSA Brownsville-Harlingen MSA College Station-Bryan MSA Corpus Christi MSA Dallas-FW-Arlington MSA Dallas-Plano-Irving MD Fort Worth-Arlington MD El Paso MSA Houston MSA Killeen-Temple MSA Laredo MSA Longview MSA Lubbock MSA McAllen MSA Midland MSA Odessa MSA San Angelo MSA San Antonio MSA Sherman-Denison MSA Texarkana MSA Tyler MSA Victoria MSA Waco MSA Wichita Falls MSA
Aug 2017
Monthly Annual Annual % Change Change Change
67,900 122,100 1,022,200 163,000 144,400 116,800 196,000 3,618,700 2,579,900 1,038,600 318,400 3,049,100 148,400 104,000 97,200 148,500 258,300 88,700 70,200 48,300 1,045,500 47,500 60,100 106,700 41,900 118,300 57,600
200 -100 700 1,800 -100 17,800 0 -1,200 500 2,300 400 3,600 500 6,500 2,600 101,400 2,400 73,000 -300 27,600 -100 7,500 800 54,800 200 4,000 -400 1,700 200 700 900 2,800 -1,900 5,100 500 1,900 100 1,200 -500 -500 7,800 25,000 200 1,300 0 -900 -200 2,300 -100 200 -400 -800 -200 0
-0.1 1.5 1.8 -0.7 1.6 3.2 3.4 2.9 2.9 2.7 2.4 1.8 2.8 1.7 0.7 1.9 2.0 2.2 1.7 -1.0 2.4 2.8 -1.5 2.2 0.5 -0.7 0.0
Highlights
(MSA industry data are not seasonally adjusted)
• Fourteen out of 26 areas improved
in employment over the month for a combined increase of 15,400 jobs. Twenty areas expanded over the year, while five contracted.
• The San Antonio-New Braunfels
MSA led in August with 7,800 positions added. The annual growth rate improved 0.5 percentage points to 2.4 percent.
• The San Antonio MSA also led all areas over the month in percentage terms with a gain of 0.8 percent. Per not seasonally adjusted data, employment in Professional and Business Services industry grew by 2.1 percent over the year. The industry increased annually for 78 consecutive months.
• The
Dallas-Plano-Irving area continues to lead all areas in annual growth with 73,000 jobs added since August 2016. The leading industry was Professional and Business Services with 22,300 jobs added followed by Leisure and Hospitality with 12,200 positions.
• The Beaumont-Port Arthur MSA
had the largest annualized job loss at 1,200 positions.
Fastest Growing Metro Areas Over the Year 4.0% 3.5% 3.0% 2.5% 2.0% 1.5% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0%
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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Fastest Growing Metro Areas Over-the-Year (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
College Station-Bryan MSA Area Industry Composition
Industry
100.0% Total Nonagricultural Mining, Logging, and Construction 6.7% Mining, Logging & Construction Manufacturing 4.7% Manufacturing Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 14.4% Trade, Transportation & Utilities Information 1.1% Information Financial Activities 3.4% Financial Activities Professional and Business Services 8.5% Professional & Business Services Educational and Health Services 10.1% Education & Health Services Leisure and Hospitality 13.2% Leisure & Hospitality Other Services 3.4% Other Services Government 34.6% Government
Annual Change 4,300 300 0 400 0 0 700 300 700 300 1,600
Annual % Change 4.0 4.1 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 7.9 2.7 4.9 8.6 4.3
Annual Change 4,100 1,600 100 0 -200 100 300 1,000 500 100 600
Annual % Change 2.9 16.7 1.3 0.0 -16.7 1.4 3.0 4.3 3.4 1.8 1.6
Annual Change 70,900 3,100 3,400 12,700 -1,100 6,200 22,300 4,200 12,200 2,800 5,100
Annual % Change 2.8 2.3 2.0 2.5 -1.5 2.7 4.7 1.4 4.8 3.4 1.8
Killeen-Temple MSA Area Industry Composition
Industry
100.0%Mining, Logging, and Construction Total Nonagricultural 7.6%Manufacturing Mining, Logging & Construction 5.1% Manufacturing Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 18.7% Trade, Transportation & Utilities Information 0.7% Information Financial Activities 4.8% Financial Activities Professional and Business Services 7.0% Professional & Business Services Educational and Health Services 16.6% Education & Health Services Leisure and Hospitality 10.3% Leisure & Hospitality Other Services 3.8% Other Services Government 25.5% Government
Dallas-Plano-Irving MD Area Industry Composition
Industry
100.0%Mining, Logging, and Construction Total Nonagricultural 5.4% Mining, Logging & Construction Manufacturing 6.8% Manufacturing Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 20.1% Trade, Transportation & Utilities Information 2.7% Information Financial Activities 9.0% Financial Activities Professional and Business Services 19.3% Professional & Business Services Educational and Health Services 11.9% Education & Health Services Leisure and Hospitality 10.3% Leisure & Hospitality Other Services 3.3% Other Services Government 11.1% Government
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LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Texas & the U.S. (Seasonally Adjusted)
Texas August 2017 Date
Employed 12,816,500 Unemployed 556,900
4.2%
CLF
Employment Unemployment
Rate
1 August 2017
13,373,400
12,816,500
556,900
4.2
July 2017
13,401,900
12,827,400
574,500
4.3
August 2016
13,290,300
12,662,800
627,600
4.7
2
U.S. August 2017 Date
Employed 153,439,000 Unemployed 7,132,000
4.4%
CLF
Employment Unemployment
Rate
1 August 2017 2
160,571,000
153,439,000
7,132,000
4.4
July 2017
160,494,000
153,513,000
6,981,000
4.3
August 2016
159,508,000
151,655,000
7,853,000
4.9
Highlights
• Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in August, down one-tenth of a percentage point from July. The U.S. rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.4 percent.
• The state’s labor force participation rate was a seasonally adjusted 62.9 percent in August. • Texas’ seasonally adjusted LAUS employment was down 10,900 from last month. • Summarizing the not seasonally adjusted estimates, the Texas unemployment rate increased by two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.5 percent from July to August. This was four-tenths of a percentage point lower than the unemployment rate in August 2016. Over the previous five years, the unemployment rate has averaged a decrease of three-tenths of a percentage point from July to August.
10 Largest States' Unemployment Rates Michigan Florida North Carolina Texas Texas Georgia New York Pennsylvania Illinois California Ohio 3.0%
OTM Increase OTM Decline Current Rate
3.5%
4.0%
4.5%
5.0%
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5.5%
6.0%
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LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Substate Areas (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
County Unemployment Rates
County Highlights
• Unemployment
rates varied considerably across counties, ranging from a low of 1.9 percent in McMullen County to a high of 12.0 percent in Zavala County.
• Seventeen counties had an unemployment rate of 3.0 percent or less.
• Zavala County’s unemployment rate decreased by 4.4 percentage points over the year, comfortably the largest decline among Texas counties.
• In August 2017, 54 of the 254 counties had an over-the-month decline in their unemployment rates. Fifty-three counties were unchanged over the month, while 147 increased.
3.9% and below 4.0% to 4.9% 5.0% to 5.9% 6.0% to 6.9% 7.0% and above
• Over the year, the civilian labor force increased in 82 counties. Roberts county remained unchanged, while the other 171 counties experienced a decline.
Texas Metro Areas Ranked by Unemployment Rate Rank 1 2 3 4 4 6 6 8 9 9 11 11 13 14
Area Amarillo Midland Austin-Round Rock College Station-Bryan Lubbock San Antonio-New Braunfels Sherman-Denison San Angelo Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Wichita Falls Abilene Tyler Killeen-Temple Odessa
Rate
Rank
Area
Rate
3.1 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.9 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.3
15 16 17 18 18 20 20 22 23 24 25
Laredo United States Texas Waco Texarkana El Paso Victoria Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Longview Corpus Christi Beaumont-Port Arthur Brownsville-Harlingen McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.7 4.8 4.8 5.2 5.2 5.8 7.2 7.3 8.0
Metro Area Highlights
• Two MSAs in Texas experienced an over-the-month decrease in their unemployment rate in August, with the Amarillo and San Angelo MSAs both experiencing a decline of 0.1 percentage points.
• Over the year, 23 MSAs saw a decrease in their unemployment rate, with Odessa, Longview, Midland, Victoria, and
San Angelo experiencing a decrease of one percent or more. Odessa experienced the largest over the year change, dropping 2.7 percentage points.
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CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY 12-Month Moving Average Unemployment Rates
Texas Unemployment Rates by Demographic Gender (age 16+)
Aug 2017
July 2017
Aug 2016
Female
4.4%
4.4%
4.4%
Male
4.7%
4.8%
4.7%
Race & Ethnicity (age 16+)
Aug 2017
July 2017
Aug 2016
White
4.1%
4.2%
4.2%
Black
7.3%
7.4%
6.9%
Hispanic
5.1%
5.1%
4.7%
Other Categories (age 18+) Veterans
Aug 2017 3.9%
July 2017 4.0% July 2017
Aug 2016 3.7%
Age
Aug 2017
16-19
13.1% 13.5% 14.8% 7.1%
7.5%
8.8%
25-34
4.7%
4.6%
4.8%
35-44
4.0%
4.0%
3.0%
45-54
3.1%
3.1%
3.3%
55-64
3.7%
3.6%
3.0%
65+
3.8%
4.0%
3.8%
Aug 2017
July 2017
• The unemployment rate for males and females
remained steady over-the-year at 4.7 and 4.4 percent, respectively.
• The unemployment rate for veterans was up 0.2 percentage points over-the-year at 3.9 percent.
• Individuals
with some College education or higher continue to have a lower unemployment rate than those with a High School Diploma or less.
• Of the new entrants into Texas’ labor force in
August, more are men (29,700) than women (23,400).
• The number of people not in the labor force because they are discouraged over job prospects in Texas stands at 34,800, down from a level of 42,700 a year ago.
• Out of the estimated 7,707,000 Texans not in the
labor force, 94 percent do not currently want a job.
Aug 2016
20-24
Education (age 25+)
Highlights
Unemployment Rates by Age 16% 14% 12% 10% 8% 6% 4% 2% 0%
5.5%
5.6%
4.5%
High School Diploma
5.1%
4.9%
5.1%
Some College or Associate Degree
3.9%
3.9%
3.5%
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
2.6%
2.7%
2.5%
Age 20‐24
Age 25‐34
Previous Year
Aug 2016
Less than High School
Age 16‐19
Age 35‐44
Age 45‐54
Previous Month
Age 55‐64
Age 65+
Aug 2017
Unemployment Rates by Education 6% 5% 4% 3% 2% 1% 0%
Less than HS
HS Diploma
Previous Year
Some College or Associate Degree
Previous Month
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
Aug 2017
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HELP WANTED ONLINE Statewide Online Job Postings Data (Seasonally Adjusted)
1,100
450
1,000
400
900
350
800
300
700
250
600 500
200
400
150
Unemployed
# OF ADS (THOUSANDS)
# OF UNEMPLOYED (THOUSANDS)
Texas Labor Supply vs. Labor Demand
HWOL
Highlights
• Online advertised vacancies decreased by 7,463 to 300,233 in August, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series.
• The August Supply/Demand rate stands at 1.86 unemployed for each advertised vacancy with a total of 256,709 more unemployed workers than the number of advertised vacancies.
Top Employers by Postings
Top Occupations by Postings
Employer
Aug 2017
July 2017
Occupation
Aug 2017
Anthem, Inc.
4,614
367
HCA - The Healthcare Company
Registered Nurses
14,755 15,108
3,687 3,712
Heavy Truck Drivers
10,868 12,039
Robert Half International
3,425 3,524
Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
7,290 7,592
Army
2,803 2,432
Retail Salespersons
6,879 6,912
MedOptions, Inc.
2,224
Software Developers, Applications
6,676 6,319
Scott & White
2,117 2,449
General Maintenance Workers
5,880 5,746
ACCENTURE
1,922 2,007
Customer Service Representatives
5,459 5,452
Randstad
1,662 2,260
Supervisors of Office & Admin Workers 4,990 4,882
The University of Texas System
1,659 1,526
Computer User Support Specialists
4,803 4,726
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
1,540 1,534
Computer Systems Analysts
4,680 4,303
775
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EMPLOYMENT NEWS Media Update Harvey Exposes Weaknesses to Energy Supply Houston Chronicle HOUSTON, TX—The Texas oil industry’s breakdown after Tropical Storm Harvey will test the nation’s ability to get fuel to motorists, as the Gulf Coast’s vast network of refineries, pipelines and seaside ports stay idle for weeks. The slow restart of coastal energy facilities will likely expose weak spots in energy supply chains. “In addition to the human tragedy, it’s just shown how important Houston and the Texas Gulf has become in the global oil system,” said Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit. “As the storm passes, the big question will be how the logistics work with this degree of disruption, and how quickly do the refineries come back?” In less than a week, Harvey flooded more than a dozen major refineries, stranded workers from Corpus Christi to Port Arthur, and shut down major pipelines that ferry oil and gasoline across the country. “It’s clear the infrastructure in the systems haven’t kept up with the topography,” Yergin added The catastrophic storm came at a time when the domestic oil and gas surge has shifted the energy industry’s center of gravity to the Texas coast, a flood-prone region exposed to frequent and powerful storms. It has raised questions about the resiliency of Gulf Coast refineries and whether the region’s vulnerability to storms might threaten its future as an energy hub. In recent years, petrochemical manufacturers have poured tens of billions into new plants in Houston and along the Gulf Coast, taking advantage of existing gas and chemical processing facilities and the proximity to ports and waterways to export products. The region — not even counting Louisiana — produces more than 25 percent of the nation’s gasoline and jet fuel. Lost economic activity and extensive damage by the storm could cost the region more than $100 billion, including $5 billion to $10 billion in damage to road, bridges, rail and other infrastructure that holds the energy complex together.
Job Gains Bank Headquarters Planned in North Texas Dallas Morning News DALLAS, TX—Independent Bank Group’s $52 million new headquarters will start construction in the fourth quarter of this year. KDC, the commercial building company that built Toyota North American’s new headquarters in Plano, will oversee the 400,000-square-foot campus that could eventually house as many as 1,200 workers. The Independent Bank Group headquarters will be in McKinney. Independent Bank Group has more than 80 locations in Texas and Colorado.
Job Losses Offshore Driller Plans Layoff Houston Chronicle HOUSTON, TX—Rowan Companies, a UK-based contract drilling company with a corporate office in Houston, plans to lay off 150 employees by the end of August. Carrie Prati, director of investor relations with Rowan, said that the layoffs were prompted by the cancellation of a contract the company had with Cobalt International Energy, also Houston-based. With the Reliance rig being a Gulf Coast installation, these layoffs will likely affect employees living in Houston and other Gulf states.
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KEY INDICATORS Total Nonag Annual Employment Growth
Unemployment Rates
Current Month: Texas: 2.5% US: 1.4%
Current Month: Texas: 4.2% US: 4.4%
(Seasonally Adjusted)
(Seasonally Adjusted)
12.0%
5.0% 4.0% 3.0% 2.0% 1.0% 0.0% ‐1.0% ‐2.0% ‐3.0% ‐4.0% ‐5.0% ‐6.0%
10.0% 8.0% 6.0% 4.0% 2.0% 0.0%
TX of US Source: TWC/Bureau Labor Statistics
Texas of Labor U.S. Statistics Source: TWC/Bureau
Initial and Continued Claims
West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil vs.Texas Rig Count
(3-Month Moving Average)
Current Month: Initial Claims: 79,073 Continued Claims: 672,122 140,000
1,600,000 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0
120,000 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000 0
Initial Claims Continued Claims Source: TWC
Current Month: WTI: $48.04 Texas Rig Count: 463 $160 $140 $120 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20 $0
1,000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
WTI Administration Texas Rig Counts (EIA) & Baker Hughes Source: US Energy Information
Consumer Price Index Annual Growth
Average Hourly Earnings
(Not Seasonally Adjusted)
(Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Current Month: Dallas-Fort Worth: 1.9% Houston-Galveston: 2.2%
Current Month: Texas: $25.13 US: $26.17
8%
$27
6%
$26 $25
4%
$24
2%
$23
0%
$22
‐2%
$21
‐4%
$20
Dallas of Labor Houston Source: Bureau Statistics
US Source: BureauTXof Labor Statistics
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GLOSSARY CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS This Federal/State cooperative program produces estimates drawn from a monthly survey of nonfarm business establishments used to collect wage and salary employment, worker hours and payroll by industry and area. It counts the number of jobs, not of people. Nonagricultural Jobs - The total number of persons on establishment payrolls employed full or part time. Persons on the payroll of more than one establishment are counted in each establishment. Data exclude proprietors, self-employed, unpaid family or volunteer workers, farm workers, and domestic workers. Government employment only covers civilian employees. Actual or Not Seasonally Adjusted - Describes the data series not subject to the seasonal adjustment process. In other words, the effects of regular, or seasonal, patterns have not been removed from these series.
LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS This Federal/State cooperative program produces employment and unemployment estimates by place of residence. Employed - All persons 16 years and over who, during the reference week, (a) did any work at all (at least 1 hour) as paid employees, worked on their own business, profession, or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid family workers, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent. Each employed person is counted only once, even if the person holds more than one job. Unemployed - All persons aged 16 years and over who had no employment, were available for work, and had made specific efforts to find employment. Includes persons who were waiting to be recalled to jobs from which they had been laid off.
Seasonally Adjusted - The effects of regular, or seasonal, patterns of hiring or layoffs (holidays, weather, etc.) have been removed from these series. These adjustments make it easier to observe the cyclical and other non-seasonal movements in a data series.
Unemployment Rate - The unemployed number divided by the civilian labor force number.
HELP WANTED ONLINE
MISCELLANEOUS
The Conference Board's data series provides monthly measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies) at the national, regional, state, and metropolitan area levels.
Metropolitan Division (MD) - A Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 2.5 million which is subdivided into smaller groupings is referred to as Metropolitan Divisions (MDs).
Supply-Demand rate - A ratio measuring the number of unemployed persons per Help Wanted Online job opening.
INDICATORS Initial Claims - A count of notices of unemployment received requesting a determination of eligibility for UI benefits. A person can file multiple claims.
Civilian Labor Force (CLF) - All persons classified as employed or unemployed.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - A geographic area that contains at least one urbanized center of 50,000 or more population plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core urban location. An MSA in Texas is made up of one or more counties.
Continued Claims - A count of claimants who have qualified for and are receiving UI benefits.
Metro Area - Can refer either to a Metropolitan Statisical Area or a Metropolitan Division. Texas has 25 MSAs, including the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA which is subdivided into two MDs.
Consumer Price Index - An index of the variation in prices paid by typical consumers for retail goods and other items.
Workforce Development Area (WDA) - The State of Texas is divided into twenty-eight (28) local workforce development areas.
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