TEXAS rocks! but you already knew that. according to the The Real Estate Center at Texas AandM’s Monthly Review of the Texas Economy our great state created 19.4% of total jobs in the US from September 2010 to September 2011. we gained 248,700 ‘nonfarm’ jobs during this the period which puts our annual growth rate at 2.4%….compared with 1.1% for the United States. The state’s private sector added 281,400 jobs, an annual growth rate of 3.3% compared with 1.7% for the nation’s average.
additionally Texas’ unemployment rate is 8.5% while the nation leads at 9.1%.
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according to cole the sky is NOT falling!