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.
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!!!
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.
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...
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.
Okay, so minimum wage jobs are primarily service sector... that means they need to fill them because they have so many people with non-service sector jobs that are paying customers. I guess employment is stable in Texas.
Well if things in Texas are so great then the rest of the country must really suck!
bump.
A thousand people a day are moving to Texas...I don't think they were all CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations where they came from!
Most were probably minimum wage where they came from...and lost that!
Obama has cost TX a LOT of jobs. Off shore drilling was stopped...and paid well. At NASA, engineering jobs were lost.
Obama is out to get TX because we don't want him and his flippin government programs.
I can't stand the sight or sound of Barack Obama!
Yeah, it’s much better to be unemployed getting that extended unemployment check from taxpayers, than to take a lowly job. We have our pride, after all.
Guess it is true, loads of people are looking for employment, but not many are looking to work.
What they don't address is the cost of living in Texas. Outside of the major cities, folks can get by on minimum wage. A single mom making $10 an hour can keep a roof over her head (not a McMansion, but a roof) and still provide.
And yes, the $50K jobs are still out there in Texas. I host a job bank for my industry, and we had several new posts this month after a quiet period.
You are correct, though, Rational Thought. A friend of mine sent out over 700 resumes looking for work, and eventually took a job making $12 an hour. From over $100K, with over 25 years experience in the field, to $12 an hour - in New York. Thankfully, his wife is in the medical field and earns a good salary, so they are hanging on - albiet with a radically different lifestyle.