Unemployment Numbers Down for the Brazos Valley

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Updated: Fri 11:45 AM, Jan 21, 2011

The number of people out of work is on the decline, but still not where things were two years ago.

The latest numbers from the Texas Workforce Commission show 5.9% of the workforce lookng for work in the College Station-Bryan Metro area with some 7,000 people looking for a job.

That's a small improvement from a month earlier where the number of unemployed stood at 6.2% but a little worse from December of 09 when 5.7% of the workforce didn't have a job.

Those numbers put us at the fourth best unemploymente rate in the state.

Here are the top 5 metro areas in Texas:

*Midland 4.9%
*Amarillo 5.3%
*Lubbock 5.8%
*B-CS 5.9%

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Unemployment Numbers Down for the Brazos Valley

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