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Old 08-13-2011, 04:15 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Texas leads nation in professional services job creation - Houston Business Journal

The job sector category includes such diverse occupations as accounting, advertising, business consulting, computer programming and the law.

i.e. hardly only low-paying jobs.


Texas still leads way for U.S. job growth - Houston Business Journal
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Old 08-14-2011, 10:31 AM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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Careful there when just looking at raw numbers. Using your own links it seems that between 2006-2011 84900 "hardly only low paying jobs" were created. Between the same period 537500 total jobs were created. So the percentage of "hardly only low paying jobs" created between 2006-2011 is 16%. Now's that's some data worth discussing.
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Old 08-17-2011, 12:50 PM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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No way, the liberal rag blogs tell us otherwise. They just can't stand it.
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Old 08-18-2011, 04:33 AM
 
Location: 77441
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Obama hired a bunch of census workers.
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Old 08-18-2011, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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And yet what's the unemployment rate here? We're ranked 26th. That's nothing to brag about.
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Old 08-18-2011, 09:33 PM
 
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REPORT: Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth

REPORT: Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth | ThinkProgress
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:15 PM
 
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Texas isn't special; they've lost more jobs than they've gained or "created" jobs. This article is fallacious.

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Texas leads nation in professional services job creation - Houston Business Journal

The job sector category includes such diverse occupations as accounting, advertising, business consulting, computer programming and the law.

i.e. hardly only low-paying jobs.


Texas still leads way for U.S. job growth - Houston Business Journal

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Old 08-18-2011, 10:26 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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REPORT: Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth

REPORT: Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth | ThinkProgress

I'm certainly no fan of Perry, but that article is laughably bad. So, Texas created the most jobs, but they're dead last in job creation because our unemployment rate has risen? The article goes on to talk about Michigan, which actually created less than 25% of the jobs we did, and said they were doing better because their rate of unemployment went down. Uh, yeah...because all of the unemployed are leaving their state and everyone is moving here!


Job creation means job creation. If Texas created over 120,000 jobs in 2 years and Michigan created 29,000, Michigan didn't "create more jobs" than Texas just because we have more people moving to our state. That is nonsensical. I guess we need to build a fence around Texas keeping everyone else out so our statistics look better.
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:40 PM
 
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What is your point? Texas lost more jobs than they created.

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I'm certainly no fan of Perry, but that article is laughably bad. So, Texas created the most jobs, but they're dead last in job creation because our unemployment rate has risen? The article goes on to talk about Michigan, which actually created less than 25% of the jobs we did, and said they were doing better because their rate of unemployment went down. Uh, yeah...because all of the unemployed are leaving their state and everyone is moving here!


Job creation means job creation. If Texas created over 120,000 jobs in 2 years and Michigan created 29,000, Michigan didn't "create more jobs" than Texas just because we have more people moving to our state. That is nonsensical. I guess we need to build a fence around Texas keeping everyone else out so our statistics look better.
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Old 08-18-2011, 11:36 PM
 
Location: Houston (Bellaire)
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What is your point? Texas lost more jobs than they created.
Either you can't read, can't articulate your point, or your unbiased and highly credible pro-LGBT source has done more oh-so-brilliant statistical skewering that supports your statement and you simply haven't been so kind as to share the link with us.

But, artsyguy, never fear - I can help you to comprehend. What the article does say is that Texas is gaining more people than jobs. Which, as others has pointed out, seems obvious - people without jobs are going to move to a place where jobs are moving to or being created. That doesn't mean Texas lost more jobs than "they" created.
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