Since July, Baker Hughes was hit the hardest laying off almost 150 workers while Showcase and Window and ‘New Tech Global Recruiting, had to make cuts too. Economist Hank Lewis says 2 of the 3 companies are the results of mergers getting rid of the redundant departments. “Some of the customer service the combined company doesn’t need as many people as the 2 separate companies did because there’s fewer competitors this is just companies doing business.” He explained. <\/p>\n
The report shows the layoffs between those 3 companies totaled 356 people during the third quarter, or between July and September, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.<\/p>\n
Houston, however, still outpaces the nation adding 154,300 non-agricultural jobs over the past year for a growth rate of 1.1%, the TWC said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Data compiled by the TWC shows professional and business services led industry gains, with 69,400 jobs added over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n
The report shows the industry’s growth was led by the Professional and Business Services sector. <\/p>\n
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced last week that over $20 million in JET grants were awarded to schools across the state. According to the governor\u2019s office, the grants are designed to help schools buy and install equipment for technical education training programs.\u00a0Despite shortages in healthcare, the construction industry is booming. “Some of it is data centers, but some of it is other things as well. These grants can help carpenters, welders, electricians, drywall installers, brick masons- you name it- getting the training requires money and the fact that the state is putting money towards it and we’re starting to see some results and this is definitely some good news.” Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since July, Baker Hughes was hit the hardest laying off almost 150 workers while Showcase and Window and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13009,38656,56,58,57,38655,21639,7094,5387,38657],"class_list":["post-473402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abc-news","tag-glen-beck","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-news-talk","tag-houston-traffic","tag-houston-weather","tag-michael-berry","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473402","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=473402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}