According to a recent Houston Chronicle article*, the Houston-area unemployment rate (8.5 percent) was slightly higher than the Texas unemployment rate (8.2 percent) for October. While this is sobering news for Houston job-seekers, they can take some solace in the fact that the city’s unemployment rate is well below the national average of 10.2 percent.The Houston Chronicle article referenced the Texas Workforce Commission, which noted that 41,700 new jobs were created statewide in October...

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