Study finds many Texans earn low pay, hold few assets (Houston: real estate, credit)

[usc619]

Something I've always known since moving here lol Study finds many Texans earn low pay, hold few assets | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth

[doss1]

But, are we generally happier?

[Trainwreck20]

Of course we have fewer assets...we don't need heavy winter coats, gloves, ice scrapers.....

[Johnhw2]

Most assets held in the usa are from home equity. Without the big real estate price bubble most states experienced, Texans didnt have the opportunity to sell a home at the peak and create cash assets to buy stock etc.

Low pay and low cost of living isnt a bad combintion. We need higher paying jobs for sure, but in this economy having any job is a blessing

[SVTRay]

Originally Posted by usc619

Something I've always known since moving here lol Study finds many Texans earn low pay, hold few assets | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth

Hum...is that plus or minus the 5 million illegal aliens? If you noticed, most of the lower income states are South of the country and states with illegal aliens issues. Texas spends about 2.5 billion a year just on health care for illegal aliens. If you don't Texas, then move. But to sit here and bash the state all because of a courty who refuses to enforce it's Immagration policies to absrude! Seriously, if our job market was all that bad than why is every state license plate represented in the pick line our son's school? We got people moving here from all overthe courty because we have a solid job market. We don't all buy worthless invisable paper stocks either, I invest my money in art and physical metals...neither of which is reported to some survey.

[High_Plains_Retired]

If Texans paid attention to every partisan-hack study of how the State is so bad, we would have never "survived the Great Recession better than other states" as the article admits.

[loves2read]

I think this article is presenting the opinion that we DIDN'T "survive" the Great Recession in better shape that some people in other states

Why should Rick Perry be so proud of being governor of state where obviously MOST of the people are not doing that well???
Just like Mitt Romney doen't think poor people really need a larger safety net...
he's got his and knows where to get more...

[Johnhw2]

Originally Posted by loves2read

I think this article is presenting the opinion that we DIDN'T "survive" the Great Recession in better shape that some people in other states

Why should Rick Perry be so proud of being governor of state where obviously MOST of the people are not doing that well???
Just like Mitt Romney doen't think poor people really need a larger safety net...
he's got his and knows where to get more...

Why are so many people moving to Houston and Dallas which are the two top job adding cities in 2011? Could it be that despite liberal DC policies we are growing and adding jobs at a greater rate than those bastions of individual liberty like CA, NY, Ill? Those moving here want work, manufacturing jobs, yes libs even oil and gas jobs. Those jobs are here not Ca, nor ny etc

Obama takes credit for increased oil and gas production on his watch when his policies did the opposite. Rick Perry didnt do anything to stop Texas growth and that is what we want from a gov....for it to stand aside and let growth happen. Rick gets more credit for increased oil and gas production than O claims he deserves credit

[JayBrown80]

Originally Posted by SVTRay

Hum...is that plus or minus the 5 million illegal aliens? If you noticed, most of the lower income states are South of the country and states with illegal aliens issues. Texas spends about 2.5 billion a year just on health care for illegal aliens. If you don't Texas, then move. But to sit here and bash the state all because of a courty who refuses to enforce it's Immagration policies to absrude! Seriously, if our job market was all that bad than why is every state license plate represented in the pick line our son's school? We got people moving here from all overthe courty because we have a solid job market. We don't all buy worthless invisable paper stocks either, I invest my money in art and physical metals...neither of which is reported to some survey.

Your post was both hard to read and off topic. This is not an illegal immigration thread. There are many of those already, no reason to try to bend this to your favorite subject sir. Illegal Immigration is a problem EVERYWHERE, including California that has just as many (if not more) illegal immigrants than Texas, but also enjoys both high wages and a HUGE cost of living. There is no coorelation between your "texas has lower pay b/c illegals done TOOK DYER JAWBS" and what the OP is talking about.

Once again, this is not an illegal alien thread. It has nothing to do with what the OP was discussing.

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by Johnhw2

Why are so many people moving to Houston and Dallas which are the two top job adding cities in 2011?

The Lubbock area is also doing well.