Jobless rate drops slightly across region

Gillespie Life

News Staff, on October 26, 2022

Unemployment for September has dropped by 0.3 percentage points since August in the Workforce Solutions Alamo, which covers eight counties, including Gillespie. The rate for the eight-county San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is 3.5 percent, lower than the 3.8 percent reported

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