El Paso Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in Texas

[TexasCCW]

I agree that the Permian Basin boom is great, but there are tons of illiterate kids leaving high school just to work the fields. I know because the family of my ex were all roughnecks. These window lickers couldn't talk or communicate worth a damn, but they sure did have nice shiny trucks.

El Paso is starting to get better and it will take a generation to get through this. I am definitely trying to do my part. Once my children are older I hope to have worked hard enough to eliminate or reduce the stigma of El Paso.

I pay my employees above minimum wage and allow them to further their education. I encourage them to use their credit wisely and mentor them whenever possible. It is up to us to begin the change. It will not happen by itself!

[HookTheBrotherUp]

Originally Posted by TexasCCW

I agree that the Permian Basin boom is great, but there are tons of illiterate kids leaving high school just to work the fields. I know because the family of my ex were all roughnecks. These window lickers couldn't talk or communicate worth a damn, but they sure did have nice shiny trucks.

El Paso is starting to get better and it will take a generation to get through this. I am definitely trying to do my part. Once my children are older I hope to have worked hard enough to eliminate or reduce the stigma of El Paso.

I pay my employees above minimum wage and allow them to further their education. I encourage them to use their credit wisely and mentor them whenever possible. It is up to us to begin the change. It will not happen by itself!

Unfortunately, it is a family tradition for kids to drop out of high school in and around El Paso, regardless of where they go, so I think at the very least, it would be more productive for those kids to go to work. I say it will take more than one generation to get over it because as long as the those parents who allow their kids to dropout are influencing their grandchildren, then it will continue. It all starts at home and in the simplest terms, it is stupid parents making children, many by accident. That in itself is another topic of concern for El Paso.