Posted on 08/13/2011 9:35:42 AM PDT by Rational Thought
Texas has created a lot of jobs over the 10 years that Rick Perry's been governor -- there's no doubt about it.
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But that doesn't mean that all is well with employment in the Lone Star State. Texas leads the nation in minimum-wage jobs, and many positions don't offer health benefits. Also, steep budget cuts are expected to result in the loss of more than 100,000 jobs.
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Texas, however, still faces many challenges on the jobs front. Many of the positions that have been created are on the lower end of the pay scale. Some 550,000 workers last year were paid at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25, more than double the number making those wages in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That's 9.5% of the Texas workforce, which gives it the highest percentage of minimum-wage workers in the nation -- a dubious title it shares with Mississippi.
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I've been seeing way too many former $50,000+ annual earners who have long since run out of unemployment benefits who are now working for minimum wage, since it's all that's available. In some areas, even those jobs are scarce.
Of course new jobs are at the low end of the pay scale. Higher pay only comes with more experience! You need to look at the average wage, not the wage paid for new jobs that are created.
No one is forcing anyone to take those minimum wage jobs.
Are only pro-positive statements regarding Perry accepted on this thread?
Is this one of those Perry threads where legitimate disagreement or political dissension are not welcome or tolerated?
Compared to states where they aren’t even seeing minumum wage jobs being created, I’d still say Texas is doing pretty good.
Point taken. But to many, what is the alternative?
What is the actual average of pay for jobs created in Texas...that is what needs to be known...both the known and unkown can screw us up.
In the Austin (TX) area, very few I know of are working for minimum wage. Like to see the stats for the rest of the states and how good they are doing.
This is just the first of many hit pieces on Gov. Perry’s record.
the criminal liberal media was dancing in the streets just a few weeks ago when McDonald’s announced they were hiring 70K people...PROGRESS!!!
Perhaps if President Obama and the EPA would go on vacation we could drill a few more holes in the earth and sell the rest of America the oil it buys from the middle east. I am not peo or anti Perry or think he is the answer all of America’s problems, but job creation is the answer to most of our problems. Perry would be a better choice than 4 more years of hope and change.
Already the MSM is cranking up the “Perry’s record isn’t THAT great” meme. The Washington Post had a similar “even handed” piece today. All designed to minimize the contrast with the absolute DISASTER that Team Obama is when it comes to jobs creation. I don’t know enough about Perry at this point to know whether he is “the one” for the Republicans, but it’s frustrating to see the MSM jump all over these candidates when they never, ever apply similar rigor to Obama’s past, present or future.
A whole lot of Texas is very rural and agricultural. I don’t see how you can go by the average pay. Also, if not for the total failure of a decent national energy policy, there would have been untold new, high paying jobs in the energy sector in Texas. Not doing bad now, but could have boomed.
I live in Texas and although Perry's not perfect, he is in comparison to that ignorant, narcissistic, communist a$$ clown we have now.
Which begs the question of why there's even a minimum wage in the first place. I envision a truly great America where the marketplace sets the wage -- not the government. Watch our blessed country come roaring back to its rightful place as the dominant economic force if the socialist minimum wage is abolished!
Of course, right to work ought to be the law everywhere just as it is in Texas and other states where freedom and liberty are cherished.
In a sense, minimum wage laws result in employers having to pay their less qualified people more than they're worth.
To offset that, employers can only afford to pay minimum wage to their higher quality employees.
These higher quality employees would probably earn more if the employer were free to determine the value of the employee, rather than the government.
Texas was ranked 14th in the US at an average weekly wage of $876.00
http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/qcew_tx.htm#tab3
So, should we eliminate the minimum wage jobs and put those people on welfare instead?
Seems to me that creating minimum wage jobs gets people working and off of the government payroll. And maybe gives teenagers something to do, and some spending money, which should be good for the economy.
Just can’t find anything wrong with having lots of minimum wage jobs, as long as there are also higher paying jobs.
What have learned about the “job creation” numbers the past few years?
Everyone brags about how many jobs were “created”, but what about the number that were LOST?
In August 2008, Texas had about 10.64 million jobs. About a year later, with the recession in full swing, Texas had about 400,000 less (per PolitiFact).
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) keeps annual data, starting from April 1 each year, on total private sector job gains and losses. During the most recent three years — 2008, 2009 and 2010 — California gained an average of 1.3 million jobs annually, while Texas posted an average of 935,000 jobs. However, California also lost an average of 1.8 million jobs while Texas lost 992,000.
Another thing is how the jobs are measured. Comparing employment in a single month in 2006 with the same month five years later, Texas’ job numbers grow. Shorten the time period to three years, and Texas shows a net loss in jobs, going from 10.56 million jobs in January 2008 to 10.47 million in January 2011.
Remember, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Rick Perry or any other candidate better be prepared to talk details, not just toss numbers out and take credit.
I’m not saying he’s lying - I’m saying it depends on what is measured, how, and when. And then there’s the whole separate issue of the quality of the jobs, i.e. minimum wage, benefits, etc.
Time to run a level four diagnostic on your BS Detector, cuz we’re going to need ‘em...
Texas became the first state to pass an in-state tuition law for illegals
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Study: 70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare
In Texas, 54 percent of legal immigrants and 70 percent of illegal immigrants receive welfare assistance
Texas showed 61 percent of households headed by an immigrant utilizing at least one program compared to the 42 percent of Texas natives on welfare.
Study: 70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare
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If this isn’t enough, there are about 1000 anchor babies per month being churned out at Dallas Parkland Hospital...That is just one hospital in Texas, every month.
In Parkland Memorial Hospital Dallas, the second busiest maternity ward in the United States, 70% of the women giving birth were illegal aliens.
That added up to 11,200 babies for which Medicaid kicked in 34.5 million dollars to deliver these babies, the feds another 9.5 million and Dallas taxpayers tossed in 31.3 million. The average illegal patient is 25 years and giving birth to her second anchor baby.
Dallas Parkland Hospital 70% of the women giving birth were illegal aliens. Almost 1000 per month
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Rick Perry's Texas jobs boom: The whole story
Texas leads the nation in minimum-wage jobs, and many positions don't offer health benefits. Also, steep budget cuts are expected to result in the loss of more than 100,000 jobs.
Many of the positions that have been created are on the lower end of the pay scale. Some 550,000 workers last year were paid at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25, more than double the number making those wages in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That's 9.5% of the Texas workforce, which gives it the highest percentage of minimum-wage workers in the nation -- a dubious title it shares with Mississippi.
Perry signed a budget in May that slashes $15 billion in government spending over the next two years. Also, the federal stimulus funds that poured into the state since 2009 have largely dried up…The state budget cuts alone could result in the loss of more than 100,000 jobs, many of them in the public sector
One other thing... I find it typical of the sychophantic scum in the DNC propoganda MSM unit to degrade Perry’s creation of jobs when their Marxist hero, “$hit for brains” can’t do anything but destroy them by the hundreds of thousands.
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