Fort Worth has been recognized in 2008 by Forbes.com among it's Top 10 Best Cities for Jobs. It is home to several major employers (including Fortune 500s firms) and is the 5th largest city in the State of Texas. Part of the greater Dallas - Fort-Worth - Arlington Metroplex (combined metro areas); Fort Worth is the 17th largest city in America with a population of nearly 700,000 at the end of 2007. During the recession 2008-2009, the unemployment rate remained under that of the nation and in February 2009, remained over 2 points lower than the nation's rate, This indicated job openings to continued to increase, validated by the graphics from Indeed.Com presented below.

The city was founded before the Civil War, in 1849, as a US Army outpost overlooking the nearby Trinity River. Today, it is home to a huge federal contractor specializing in Information Security and Information Warfare. Being in Texas, the city looks western and supports western style architecture among modern and Mexican inspired structures.

In 19th Century Northern Texas, the the US Army protected the settlers around what became fort Worth against Mexican armies, while the majority of Native Americans moved out, away from the fray in the mid 1830s. The US and Texas won the Mexican-American War in 1848. By the mid 1870s, the railroads ahd come through and Fort Worth became a commercial and livestock shipping city. Saloons and gambling emerged as entertainment venues.

In 1900, the town picked up a population that made the city 12% African American and changes came about. Blacks lived in the southern part of the city, found jobs and bought homes, but some worked in the saloons. This are of town, the saloon and dance hall district, had been named Hell's Half Acre and entertained the numerous cowhands and cattle drive bosses coming through on the Chisholm Trail. The district houses of vice were all closed in the early 1900s, but the city itself picked up drifters and prostitutes in the Near South Side. The area is a focus of continuing revitalization plans and major accomplishments in the 2000s (see New Businesses and Expansions, below).

Indeed.Com is the major American Internet job board that includes the features of an application for tracking industry and job growth trends defined by number of openings listed on the board. For a radius of 25 miles around the center of Fort Worth, Medical and Healthcare Industry jobs are on a steeper increasing curve than jobs in general, with Information Technology jobs increasing at near the same pace. Manufacturing (livestock and meat processing being major, along with aerospace manufacturing a targeted growth sector) has fluctuated over the same time span, but began increasing more strongly from July 2008 - Feb. 2009. Education has experienced the steepest increases in job listings.

Life Sciences and Logistics/Transportation are also targeted industries under advanced development in Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

Texas has received $34,700,000 for Adult Employment and Training, along with $82,000,000 for youth jobs up top age 24. The Fort Worth will be benefiting from a large portion of those funds. Laid off and otherwise dislocated workers are seeing $58 Million coming into the state for them. Older Workers are benefiting from $1.2 Million. Plus, $219,000,000 is allocated for child care.

Thirteen(13) major projects under the Stimulus Package in Fort Worh are creating many jobs in addition to those already open.

1. Alcon Manufacturing - Eye care products. Largest company in the State of Texas.
2. GameStop - Video games and related products.
3. Lockheed Martin - Aerospace manufacturing.
4. Revomatics - US government defense contractor for Information Security and Information Warfare. Parent of Revomatica Innovations Lab.
5. American Airlines Inc./Americ an Eagle/AMR (including Teleservice Resources) - Airline and Travel; Agency; telemarketing. Fortune 500 Company.
6. Texas Health Resources.
7. Fort Worth Independent School District
8. DR Horton - Homebuilder. Fortune 500.
9. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation - Railroads. Fortune 500.
10. Ben E. Keith Co. - 9th largest food and beverage distributor in the USA.

• Z’s Café in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center
• Spencer’s Corner sports bar
• Capital Bar and Norwood Condos - Clay Mazur
• Southwest to Northeast Rail
• ALDI (4 stores) - discount grocery stores from Germany.
• El Rio Grande Supermercado - 45,000+ sq. ft. expansion.
• Dixe House Cafe
• Casa Villa Apartments - new owners and financing.
• BAP Image Systems - From Germany: High Speed cameras and scanners.
• Lee and Associates Real Estate
• Public Communications Services Inc.- R&D and Manufacturing.
• Point Mobl - Upscale Radio Shack store.
• Ben E. Keith Beverage Distributors (major employer listed above) - first hybrid electric-diesel engine tractor (green technology in truck operation).
• Fort Worth South Inc (see introductory section)- $1,400,000,000 is the yearly income provided by the South Side in the 2000s. Crime has decreased by 80%.

(...Adding the most new openings.)

1. Retail Salespersons
2. Combined Food Preparation and Service
3. Customer Service Representatives
4. Mainstream Elementary School Teachers
5. Registered Nurses (RNs)
6. Child Care Workers
7. Waitstaff - Waiters and Waitresses
8. General Office Clerks
9. Janitors and Cleaners, except Maids
10. Personal and Home Health Aides

Job Listings in the Greater Fort Worth Area

• Fort Worth Jobs from Indeed.com
• Fort Worth Jobs on CareerBuilder.com
• Employment: Star-Telegram Want Ads - Fort Worth

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