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The Voice of Seguin Today
Manufacturing community helps to keep Seguin above water during pandemic
SEDC officials provide economic development update By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
town but we’ve slowly started to make improvement. For the past couple of months, we’ve been hovering about 7.3 and 7.4 percent for our unemployment rate for the city of Seguin. That is really on par with what we are also seeing in terms of the county’s unemployment rate, but we are also faring better than the state average, the national average for an unemployment rate. So, I think that really kind of correlates to the fact that we do have a lot of manufacturing here in the community. There were slow downs as a result of COVID and a lot of that had to do with supply chain disruption and in some cases, some of the companies were feeling impasse from lack of consumer demand on some products but then there were other companies that actually informed us that they are having some of the best business that they’ve seen in a while,” said Schneuker.
(Seguin) – It looks as though the city of Seguin, when compared to other surrounding communities, has “dodged a massive bullet” when it comes to the economic impact of COVID-19. Although some say things are far from over, Josh Schneuker, the executive director of the Seguin Economic Development Corporation (SEDC), says at least for now, he is confident in the city’s current position. Much of that positive position Schneuker says can be attributed to its solid manufacturing foundation. “Looking back especially at some of the unemployment numbers from May and June, we recorded – at least all the records I could trace down – we recorded the highest unemployment rate that the city of Seguin ever recorded and that was back in May. That was at a 15 percent unemployment rate and that was really the result of some furloughs that we were made aware of at some of our major employers throughout
Schneuker says at least for this round, Seguin’s manufacturing community has been able to stand tall. See MANUFACTURING, page 3
Melanie Esqueda 830-221-5688