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Texas Leads Nation in Job Discrimination Complaints

Jim Bell — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:23:26 +0000

Being number 1 isn't always a good thing, especially in this category. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it got more complaints of workplace discrimination from workers in Texas than from any other state last year.

The EEOC says one out of every 10 job discrimination complaints filed nationwide last year came from Texas.

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Scammers Targeting the Unemployed

Jim Bell — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:12:23 +0000

Officials at the Texas Workforce Commission say they're getting reports that scam artists are targeting people who're drawing unemployment benefits, and are tricking them into giving them their personal information.

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Longview Area Leads State in Job Growth

Jim Bell — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:14:13 +0000

The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M has released a report showing the Longview metro area of Gregg, Rusk and Upshur counties posted a 4.2 percent rate of employment growth for the period of June 2010 through this June. That's the highest rate in the state.

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Irony of Ironies — East Texas Employment Offices Lay off Workers

Jim Bell — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:19:19 +0000

It's happening in Tyler and Longview. About 75 contract employees who help people who are out of work will be unemployed by the end of September.

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