{"id":468072,"date":"2026-10-16T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:40:08","slug":"texas-outpaces-nation-in-12-month-job-growth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468072\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas outpaces nation in 12-month job growth rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Texas-Job-Growth-in-Focus-640x400.png\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Texas outpaces nation in 12-month job growth rate\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tTexas job growth in focus \u2013 October 16, 2026 (550 KTSA)\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 New numbers now show\u00a0Texas employers added 154,300 jobs over the past 12 months, outpacing the national annual job growth rate by eight-tenths of a percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Greg Abbott says the state had more than 14.4 million nonfarm jobs in September. Manufacturing led monthly job gains, adding 4,700 positions, while government services saw the largest decline.<\/p>\n<p>The private sector added more than 160,000 jobs over the past year. Abbott also says average weekly wages in Texas reached a record high in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The governor recently announced more than 20 million dollars in career training grants for schools across Texas.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas job growth in focus \u2013 October 16, 2026 (550 KTSA) SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 New numbers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101877,5922,82,84,83,27],"class_list":["post-468072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-growth-rate","tag-job","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}