Unemployment Rate for Eagle Ford Shale Production Counties Increased from April 2014 to May 2014

The unemployment rate for the 14 Eagle Ford Shale core production counties went up from 5.3% in April 2014 to 5.5% in May 2014.

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Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.