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I think that guy needs to clear up his sources or explain what exactly he's talking about in the article.
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Metrostudy recently discovered in February that more than 50,000 jobs had been added in the area year-over-year.
"Roughly 31 percent of the nation's new jobs are being created right here in Houston," Craig Richard, the chief economic development officer of the Greater Houston Partnership, told MSNBC.
I know Chicago had gained 67,000 in that same year-over-year period. So that means that if Houston created 31% of the country's jobs with 50,000, Chicago+Houston created 72% of the country's jobs added together? No way.
Also, if Houston was creating 31% of the countries jobs during that period, wouldn't that actually have been more like 390,000 jobs created in Houston during the last year given how many jobs the USA as a whole has created (which is impossible)?
If your city gains a thousand jobs, and the US has flat job growth, I guess you can validly claim that your city had infinity percent of the country's job growth.
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