We’re number one! And numbers two, three, four, five, six, eight through twelve, fourteen, and fifteen!
Economy
Let’s not overreact, but let’s not underreact either.
A new CBO report warns that raising the federal minimum wage would reduce employment, around the country, by 500,000 jobs. Texas wouldn't see the worst of that.
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock is back, with a book that should be required reading for all 26,060,796 of us.
Central Texas was the first stop on President Obama's "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity" tour.
The latest data from the Texas Workforce Commission shows that the state actually lost jobs last month. About 4,100. The total employment numbers have changed 0.0 percent. But still!
McAllen and Brownsville occupy the no. 1 and 2 slots on a new list based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey.
Wichita Falls, McAllen, and San Marcos also made the top ten of a report from the Council for Community and Economic Research.
Slim Thug's latest hit is not a song but a book of financial advice.
The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy finds that the nine states with the highest personal income tax rates do as well or better as the nine states with no income tax at all.
