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Originally Posted by kane
From what I understand much of this job growth has been in minimum wage jobs and energy industry jobs. Since oil companies have been making record profits it makes sense that they would expand and many of them are based in Texas. Otherwise minimum wage jobs are better than nothing, but many of them are also part time jobs that have no benefits and are meant to be held as either part time second jobs or part time jobs that teens and recent grads get while they work towards something better.
I read yesterday that much of the job growth in Texas really has little or nothing to do with Perry and his policies, but is more a byproduct of an increasing population (people moving their because cost of living is cheap) and the energy companies bleeding the rest of the nation dry.
That said, beyond his being a fanatical religious person who feels the solution to our problems is to pray I don't know a lot about him or how good of a governor he really has been.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Lonestar state added 732,000 private sector jobs in the past 10 years, while no other state added more than 100,000. In fact, only 19 states plus the District of Columbia added any jobs at all. Sorry man but those are not just minimum wage jobs and energy industry jobs, its across the board growth.
Also add in the fact that Texas avoided the real-estate bust that decimated the economies of several large Sunbelt states, including California and Florida, during the 2008-2010 recession. It consequently was positioned for a faster takeoff once the national economy began improving, allowing it to create 251,700 new jobs in the past year alone.
I guess everyone who prays for there country to prosper is now considered a "fanatical religious person"...interesting POV.