The Only 26 US Cities That Have Regained All Of The Jobs They Lost During The Recession

Business Insider ^ | 01/19/2012 | Mamta Badkar

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Not surprising when you consider that much of the “stimulus” money was funneled to colleges for grants and bogus studies.

[Redbob]

"35% is not too shabby for a single State.."

More important is the total population of the Texas cities: I'd be willing to bet that those 9 Texas cities have a population exceeding that of the other 17 combined.
Houston, for example, is one of the largest cities in the nation.

[TXnMA]

"Houston, for example, is one of the largest cities in the nation."

Yep -- not just in population (fourth), but in developed area. I grew up there (just inside the city limits at the time -- now ZIP 77017). One summer in the 1950s I dated a girl who also lived in Houston (now ZIP 77038). It was over 50 miles to her house from mine -- and that wasn't Houston's largest cross-distance, even then.

Now, the area within Houston's city limits is almost 60% of that of the State of Rhode Island -- and there is no telling how far it is across the present entire Metroplex -- solid wall-to-wall houses, all the way... :-(

You couldn't pay me enough to get me to move back there from our secluded place in the northeastern Texas Piney Woods boondocks!