{"id":20353,"date":"2019-02-04T02:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pintailcos.com\/dfw-houston-led-nations-job-growth-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T02:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:56:48","slug":"dfw-houston-led-nations-job-growth-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/dfw-houston-led-nations-job-growth-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DFW, Houston Led Nation\u2019s Job Growth in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"Two of the top three metro areas in the U.S. that added the most jobs in 2018 were in Texas, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dallas-Fort Worth led with 116,400 jobs, followed closely by New York and Houston, with 115,500 and 108,300 new jobs, respectively.\nDallas and Houston have long-time leading roles on the national stage in job creation, according to Cheryl Abbot, regional economist for BLS\u2019s Southwest office. The 2018 data suggest New York is growing at a much slower rate.\nAbbot noted that the Metroplex\u2019s position is \u201csomewhat unusual\u201d on a national scale, especially considering the size difference between it and New York. DFW has about 7.4 million people, compared with New York\u2019s 8.6 million.\nIn DFW, specifically, several large companies moved workers and expanded operations in the region in 2018, including Charles Schwab, Liberty Mutual, Cognizant and NTT Data. Two Fortune 500 companies\u2014McKesson and Core-Mark\u2014 announced plans to move corporate headquarters from California to North Texas this year.\n\u201cCompanies that may be relocating geographically, of course, are going to cause growth in other sectors as well,\u201d Abbot noted, \u201cso regardless of the particular industry that they are associated with, you\u2019re probably going to see increases in leisure and hospitality, which is where restaurants are associated.\u201d\nRead More at Dallas Morning News\nConnect With BLS\u2019 Abbot\nSubscribe to Connect Daily Texas \nFor questions, comments or concerns, please contact Jennifer Duell Popovec\nThe post DFW, Houston Led Nation\u2019s Job Growth in 2018 appeared first on Connect Media.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of the top three metro areas in the U.S. that added the most jobs in 2018 were in Texas, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dallas-Fort Worth led with 116,400 jobs, followed closely by New York and Houston, with 115,500 and 108,300 new jobs, respectively. Dallas and Houston have long-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t