Willis: Latest RGV decelerating workforce numbers are not an anomaly
MCALLEN, Texas - The civilian labor force in the Rio Grande Valley is not growing as fast as that of Texas as a whole or, indeed, the United States, as a whole.
This information was reported by Mike Willis, executive director of the South Texas Manufacturers Association.\xa0
At a recent STMA monthly meeting, held at the Double Tree Inn & Suites in McAllen, Willis said he had been looking through the labor reports of Workforce Solutions. He said he had compared this August to last August.
\u201cSo, the size of the workforce in the United States and Texas increased by about two percent in the last 12 months: 2.3% in Texas, 2% in the USA,\u201d Willis reported.
\u201cIn Hidalgo County, the size of the civilian labor force in the last year only increased 0.6%. A little over half a percent in the last year. Cameron County only increased point three, three tenths of one percent.\u201d
Willis said this is not an anomaly.
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