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San Antonio area unemployment continues to fall from pandemic-era record highs as job growth slows FacebookTwitterEmail A view of downtown on April 4, 2021. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic led to record-high joblessness, the San Antonio area’s unemployment rate continued to decline in April even as the pace of job growth slowed. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Friday pegged the area’s unemployment rate at 6 percent for April, down from March’s 6.3 percent. April joblessness was still twice the pre-pandemic rate of 3 percent recorded in February 2020. However, it was significant...

This includes the $300 weekly unemployment supplement from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program. Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 3:03 PM CDT May 17, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday informed the U.S. Department of Labor that Texas will opt out of further federal unemployment compensation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, effective June 26, 2021.  This includes the $300 weekly unemployment supplement from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program. The news comes after the Texas Association of Business (TAB), along wi...

Abbott to end federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits for Texans By Lauren Reid AUSTIN, Texas - Governor Greg Abbott has informed the U.S. Department of Labor that Texas will opt out of further federal unemployment compensation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes the $300 weekly unemployment supplement from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program. Texans will not be able to receive the $300 weekly unemployment supplement after June 26, 2021.  "The Texas economy is booming and employers are hiring in communities throughout the state," said Governor Greg Abbot...

Meanwhile, 93% of operators say recruiting and retaining employees will likely be more difficult after the pandemic is over compared to business before the pandemic. “It’s a real concern, especially when you combine it with the losses the industry saw last year,” said Kelsey Streufert with the Texas Restaurant Association. “We have rising food and other commodity prices we’re dealing with as well. So, it’s another really significant challenge at a time when we need to be rebuilding and kind of ramping up to make up for the last year.” Local restaurants are still having to close ...

Texas Association of Business asks Gov. Abbott to stop accepting, distributing weekly $300 in federal aid "Employers believe that supplemental UI benefit payments from Washington is disincentivizing work and resulting in many good Texas jobs going unfilled." Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 12:02 PM CDT May 13, 2021 TYLER, Texas — The Texas Association of Business, along with 37 business associations and chambers of commerce, sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott and the Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, Bryan Daniel, asking them to consider ending Texas’s...