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The Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area team has mobilized to ensure the health and safety of customers and staff, while ensuring that our business services, early childhood development programs and workforce services, continue throughout our Rural Capital Area communities.
The unadjusted unemployment rate in the Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area ticked up slightly in January 2020, compared to the month prior, though there was still a favorable drop compared to the rate last year.
Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area has launched a new reentry initiative to offer career pathway options for former offenders within the nine-county Rural Capital Area.
The economy of the Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area capped off another great year of positive employment growth in 2019, with 534 jobs added for the month of December, and 14,839 jobs created throughout the nine-county region since December 2018—an annual growth rate of 2.84 percent.
The unadjusted unemployment rate in the Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area remained steady at 2.7 percent in November, the same low rate recorded in October, with 1,450 jobs added, according to figures released by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Dell Technologies was recognized with the Employer Award of Excellence for the Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area at the Texas Workforce Commission’s 23rd Annual Texas Workforce Conference held December 4-6 in Dallas. The award honors private sector employers that are actively involved with Texas Workforce Solutions and have made a positive impact on employers, workers and the community.