Texas Has Higher Unemployment Than NY

Does the Texas unemployment rate include illegal immigrants?

Statistics can lie. Facts do not.

Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas. Mr. Fisher's study is a lesson in what works in economic policy—and it is worth pondering in the current 1.8% growth moment.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375480710070472.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

socialist: Can you bale hay?

Massachusetts Beats Texas as Unemployment Rises Less in Ranking

The Massachusetts labor market deteriorated less than in Texas from 2008 to 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/massachusetts-beats-texas-as-unemployment-rises-less-rankings.html

Texas has the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs. The jobs that Texas created are crappy jobs.

So you don't believe in the minimum wage?

In 2010, about 550,000 Texans were working at or below minimum wage, or about 9.5 percent of all workers paid by the hour in the state. Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers, while California had among the fewest (less than 2 percent).

The state with the second-highest number of minimum wage workers was New York, with 264,000 (or 6.4 percent of all hourly workers in the state).

From 2007 to 2010, the number of minimum wage workers in Texas rose from 221,000 to 550,000, an increase of nearly 150 percent.

http://www.americanindependent.com/188776/wsj-lauds-texas-economy-marked-by-jobs-including-a-lot-of-low-paying-ones

Socialist: So, you can't bale hay?

Socialist: Look, somebody has got to bale the hay.

Socialist: Can you drive a tractor? Operate a fork-lift?
Look, this is a farm -- and somebody has to bale the hay and somebody has to operate the fork-lift.

uh, Socialist: Where did you go, man?

looks like you scared him away. you seem to have that effect on people. its true.

Socialist: You can't incite a revolution if you keep taking bathroom breaks.

don't you get it? you're downright terrifying. you are a nut job.

And there's CC, the crazy old coot , SE's worst troll.

very snappy comeback.

ph41: cc is trolling me on 3 threads right now.
His fellow gang-members have left him out in the cold.
He is all alone.

what does that mean?

Is there a Columbiacounty in Texas? What is the unemployment rate in Columbiacounty?

Is there a purchase price equivalency statistic between states? I would bet a minimum wage job in TX buys a much better standard of living than it does in NY.

I am a lifelong NY'r and I love my town, but these stats tell a story. In 1970 NY had 18 million residents and TX had 10 million. Today NY has 19 million, but TX has 25 million. Those are some pretty stark #'s.

The story it tells is about Chicago, though.

>Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas.

Amazing

But if all those jobs are of the lowest paying variety, and that seems to be the overwhelming trend, what does that say about the future? If the policies of Texas and conservatives work, great, I would give them a shot, but that seems like a costly price for the future. Are you in favor of more upward movement of wealth to those who have it already?

Socialie.. how much voluntary taxes do you pay on top of your "regular' taxes?

what number??

hol4--which government services that you are eligible for do you voluntarily not use?

probably much less than the amount of government programs i'm ineligible for but yet have to fund...

nice try tho, strawman..

OP focuses on taxes directly..

simple question, how much do you pay in voluntary taxes?

dunno why so much rhetoric, what's the number $$ you pay in extra jordyn? kudos if you actually do..

but how about an actual number?

It's not a strawman, but it does show how stupid your argument is.

Why should anyone pay voluntary taxes? Just because you think tax rates should be higher doesn't mean you have to take on the burden of fixing the debt yourself, anymore than someone who doesn't believe the government should pay for roads shouldn't be allowed to drive on them.

..so zero, thought so.

charitable gifts? plenty.

one thousand points of light, or some such.

"Just because you think tax rates should be higher doesn't mean you have to take on the burden of fixing the debt yourself"

yes, let's just keep using our taxes to pay 'other' people and experts to worry about the debt.. that's done us well so far.

"anymore than someone who doesn't believe the government should pay for roads shouldn't be allowed to drive on them."

yes, because we all know road taxes and mandatory road tolls go to services first, ALWAYS!
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/traffic/traffic_news/audit-excessive-perks-for-nj-turnpike-employees-20101019-apx
$321,985 for an NJ Toll collector, obviously barely enough to feed a family.

what's the number you voluntarily pay?

a number.

numero.

“More than half of those new jobs have been filed by non-Texans. So it’s people moving here to take those jobs. It underscores this bipolar state that we live in. You have a population in Texas that is generally lower educated, poor, isn’t covered by health insurance … all of these things … so you can recruit these companies to come here from out of state but your own people, often times, aren’t qualified to fill these jobs.”

–State Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-24/opinion/navarrette.rick.perry.candidate_1_new-jobs-perry-s-texas-perry-claims/2?_s=PM:OPINION

Brillian Socialist. Now you are quoting Castro.

Socialist, this is the USA. We should all love each other. Stop following the Obama mantra of hatred and separation and come back to planet earth.

Socialist supports and quotes Castro. But Castro is even too Communist for Socialist. Where's McCarthy?

I get called all the time by Texas headhunters, its true socialist. Just the other day, a company in Dallas. Soooo cheap but...I am way too liberal.

Doesn't Dallas have a semi-Mediterranean climate?

Hey MidtownerVirginEast, that's the best you could do? Do you ever get calls from headhunters? Maybe to be senior paralegal at another firm?