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Now that the boom is dying, that isn't really true anymore.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: texasgirl
Let me ask you a question.... how do these construction companies compete with illegal immigrant workers?
They may be advertising this but are they actually following through?
50k a year isnt that bad but its also not that great anymore, pretty soon they will move the poverty line closer to that number.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Now that the boom is dying, that isn't really true anymore.
Please extrapolate.
A little more: The BLS says the definition of employment in the federal household survey, which the governor relied on for his comparison, "comprises wage and salary workers (including domestics and other private household workers), self-employed persons and unpaid workers who worked 15 hours or more during the reference week in family-operated enterprises. Employment in both agricultural and nonagricultural industries is included." In contrast, the government's oft-quoted payroll survey of employers "covers only wage and salary employees on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments."
Cooper of EPI commented to us that the timeframe singled out by the governor may deliver a more glowing contrast for Texas than other periods. According to the government’s payroll surveys, he said, the country has added 9.1 million jobs since June 2009, the acknowledged end of the national recession, with Texas accounting for 1.5 million of the additions. Significantly, he said, the rest of the country as a whole lost jobs from June 2009 until February 2010. Since then, he said, the U.S. has added more than 10 million jobs with Texas (again) accounting for more than 1 million of them.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Texas, the ‘great American job machine,’ is solely responsible for the +1.2M net US job increase since 2007
The reports on which these claims are based are biased and full of analytical errors. Making matters worse, they both come from think tanks that specialize in slanted economic analysis. As the saying goes, torture the data long enough and it will confess to anything.
originally posted by: links234
originally posted by: xuenchen
Texas, the ‘great American job machine,’ is solely responsible for the +1.2M net US job increase since 2007
Is it though?
The myth's behind energy, Texas and job creation
The reports on which these claims are based are biased and full of analytical errors. Making matters worse, they both come from think tanks that specialize in slanted economic analysis. As the saying goes, torture the data long enough and it will confess to anything.