Texas Today: Strong Business Environment and Innovation Spurs Job Creation
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By Steve Stackhouse
Things were tough all over during the Great Recession. Now that there’s more economic optimism in the air, it’s worth taking a look around the country to see how individual states are faring. It turns out that Texas tops the charts, with the highest number of jobs added since 2008.
Research by ON NUMBERS, …
AFP-Texas Director Commends Comptroller Combs
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Americans for Prosperity-Texas Director Peggy Venable commends Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs on the agreement with Amazon.
“It is good news for Texans that an agreement has been reached with online sales giant Amazon over collecting sales taxes.
“We are pleased that Amazon has decided to return to Texas. Texans and the Texas economy will …
Texas pay and jobs increase faster than nation’s
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By Bill Bowen
Employment and wages rose faster in Texas than in the nation during the 12 months that ended in September, according to a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wages in Texas rose 6.2 percent in the 12-month period, compared with 5.3 percent nationally, says the bureau’s Quarterly County Wages and Employment Report.
Employment rose …
Texas jobless rate hits 3-year low
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By Patrick Danner
A rebound in government hiring last month pushed Texas’ unemployment rate to the lowest level in three years.
Texas’ unemployment rate improved to 7.1 percent in February, down from 7.3 percent in January and 8 percent in February 2011, figures released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission show.
It’s the sixth straight month the state’s jobless rate …
Austin leads nation in job creation since 2004, data show
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By Kirk Ladendorf
Even before Apple Inc. showed up with its proposal to create 3,600 new jobs in town, Austin has been doing better than almost any other major urban area in the country at expanding its employment base.
Revised employment figures released a few weeks ago confirmed the trend. Austin ranked No. 1 among the nation’s …
Perry back to work, promoting Texas business
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By Sommer Ingram
Gov. Rick Perry, back from the campaign trail, returned to a familiar theme in a speech today lauding Texas’ business-friendly climate as the nation’s next high-tech hub of innovation.
Perry was speaking in Austin at the Angel Capital Association Summit to a group of investors. He bragged on the state’s low taxes and regulations and the …
Economist: Austin area to add 45,000 new jobs in next two years
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By Kirk Ladendorf
Austin’s puny job recovery over the past two years will accelerate into faster job growth this year and next, economist Angelos Angelou said in his 26th annual forecast event Thursday.
The CEO of Angelou Economics forecast 45,000 new jobs will be added to Austin’s five-county metro area in 2012 and 2013, more than doubling the …
TI to close Stafford plant, move 500 jobs to N. Texas
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By L.M. Sixel
The 500 employees who work at Texas Instruments’ semiconductor manufacturing site in Stafford received word Monday the plant will close at the end of 2012.
The production work will move to plants in Dallas and Sherman, said Whitney Jodry, spokeswoman for Texas Instruments in Dallas.
The Stafford factory, which opened in 1967, makes 6-inch wafers used in products …
Boeing will move up to 400 jobs to Alamo City
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By William Pack
The Boeing facility in San Antonio will gain hundreds of workers and maintenance responsibilities for Air Force One now that the aerospace giant has decided to shutter a Wichita, Kan., plant over cost inefficiencies.
The decision announced Wednesday after a lengthy evaluation of facility costs will move 300 to 400 jobs to Boeing’s plant in San …
Unemployment leading to California exodus
According to a new study, the sluggish U.S. economy has sharply reduced illegal immigration from Mexico. From a high of 1,600,000 arrests in 2000, the Border Patrol last year arrested 327,000 – a low not seen since the early 1970s.
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