Texas employers added 30,100 jobs over the month. Over the year, the state added 297,100 jobs, an increase of 2.4 percent. Texas energy companies are cutting their workforces amid sluggish growth in the sector, according to jobs data from the Texas Workforce Commission released Friday. In the state, mining and logging, the sector dominated by the oil and gas industry, cut 2,000 jobs in October from September. The sector has shed jobs through much of the second half of 2019. Other indicators point to a slowdown for Texas oil as well. The number of active oil and gas rigs […]
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