Texas Jobs through the Perryscope 0
Yosemite Sam Perry is fond of talking about the number of jobs created in Texas with federal stimulus funds (though he usually leaves out the “stimulus funds” part).
But what about those Texas jobs. Renee Loth decided to look more closely. A nugget:
Further, to quote another governor who tried to ride his state’s economic miracle to the White House, are they “good jobs at good wages?’’ Apparently not, since a third of Texas workers earn too little to stay above the federal poverty line. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas is tied with Mississippi for the highest percentage of workers earning the minimum wage, the lowest-paid workers of all 50 states.
Perry: All hat. No cattle. Much bull.
