Texas employers add 14,000 jobs

Melissa Repko reports:
Texas employers expanded payrolls by 14,000 jobs in June, according to preliminary data released today by the Texas Workforce Commission.
State unemployment also dropped slightly to 8.2 percent in June from 8.3 percent in May. That was well below the national average of 9.5 percent. Texas employers have boosted payrolls for six consecutive months.
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Texas unemployment inches up

Hoppe:
The state's unemployment rate rose from 8.2 to 8.3 percent in April. The rate is still well below the national average of 9.9 percent.
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Texas 48th in share of jobless who draw benefits

Garrett:
Even as Texas' unemployment rate inched up, some dismal news from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank focused on economic problems among lower- and middle-income Americans: As a state, we're still near the bottom in the percentage of our out-of-work residents who draw unemployment compensation.
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Pilgrim's Pride to shutter East Texas headquarters, cut 160 jobs

Robinson-Jacobs reports:

Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. said early Monday it will shutter its East Texas world headquarters office, eliminating nearly 160 jobs, within the next 60 days and will move its corporate functions to Colorado.

The announcement, feared by many in the communities of Pittsburg and Mt. Pleasant, comes as part of Pilgrim’s Pride’s continued integration into JBS USA which is based in Greeley, Colo. Pilgrim’s, one of the largest chicken processors in the U.S., sold a 64 percent stake in the company to JBS to hasten its exit from bankruptcy last year.