Hey,y'all-We Texans lead the nation in job gains...and uninsured-

[w8liftinglady]

I'm so proud.
Be sure and read the...comments

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/yahoolatestnews/stories/DN-StateJobs_24bus.ART0.State.Edition1.3ed99aa.html

Texas led the nation in absolute job gains in October, but employers in 40 other states and the District of Columbia also expanded payrolls, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Texas' preliminary job gain of 47,900, announced last week by the Texas Workforce Commission, followed three months in which state employers cut payrolls.

New York employers added 40,600 jobs last month, followed by California with 38,900, Michigan with 19,000 and Arkansas with 17,400.

Employment fell in six states and was unchanged in three, the BLS said.

In percentage terms, Arkansas led the nation with a 1.5 percent employment increase in October over the previous month, followed by 0.8 percent in New Mexico. The comparable increase for Texas was 0.5 percent.

State employment estimate procedures are designed to produce accurate data for each state, according to the BLS. But each state series is subject to larger sampling and non-sampling errors than the national series. Because of those limitations, the BLS doesn't simply add up the state figures to arrive at a national jobs number. Earlier this month, the BLS said the nation as a whole gained 151,000 jobs in October.

Over the last 12 months, 36 states and Washington, D.C., added jobs, the BLS said Tuesday.

Texas' 1.7 percent employment increase during that period was the third-fastest growth rate in the nation, trailing only Washington, D.C.'s 2.9 percent, and New Hampshire's 2.6 percent.

"We're seeing a little more improvement each month," said Cheryl Abbot, a BLS economist in Dallas. "More states are gaining jobs over the year."

But Abbot added that growth was "certainly not strong enough to really do anything about the unemployment rate."

Nevada continued to register the nation's highest unemployment in October at 14.2 percent. Michigan had the second-highest rate at 12.8 percent, followed by California at 12.4 percent.

The national average was 9.6 percent in October, unchanged from September. The Texas unemployment rate was 8.1 percent, unchanged from September.

North Dakota had the lowest jobless rate in October at 3.8 percent. South Dakota had the second-lowest rate at 4.5 percent, followed by Nebraska at 4.7 percent.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. The comments...

this one made me throw up a little bit:
Thank You God.
Thank You conservatives
Thank God Texas is not run by liberals.

No businesses would want to move here.

Liberals move here because their policies have failed in another state and they have an empty stomach.

[w8liftinglady]

3. yeah...I puked a little,too.

[w8liftinglady]

2. our uninsured stats-with our representatives comments

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-healthtexans_22nat.ART.State.Edition2.4c5dbbc.html

Texas: Most uninsured, most votes against bill



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Texas: Most uninsured, most votes against bill

01:58 PM CDT on Monday, March 22, 2010
By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News
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WASHINGTON –The state with the most to gain from a health insurance overhaul was also the state with the most lawmakers who voted against the bill on Sunday.

Twenty-one of 32 lawmakers from Texas, including 20 Republicans, voted against the measure. The opponents said the legislation was overwhelmingly unpopular in their districts, although it would offer insurance to more than half of Texas' 6 million uninsured.


The vote took place on a day when protesters, a few waving Texas flags, gathered outside the Capitol and chanted "Kill the Bill." Several Republicans, including Rep. Pete Sessions of Dallas, courted the crowd from a balcony near the House floor, rallying them to cry louder.

Sessions, whose district has more uninsured than any other GOP-controlled district, said the $940 billion bill was too expensive and would boomerang back to hurt Democrats in midterm elections. The Republicans' specific concerns include that it would require that most Americans obtain insurance and penalize businesses with more than 50 workers that don't offer it.

"What is being sold is deceptive," said Sessions, who noted that 23 million people would remain uninsured even if the measure becomes law. "The Obama and Pelosi agenda is deadly for employers."


Sessions is the rep of my partner's district...one of the poorest in Texas.

We,as a state,suck.

[KamaAina]

4. One Sunday morning I woke up, flipped on the tube, and learned that a third of Texans were uninsured

in San Antonio, the nation's eighth-largest city, where I was staying, that figure rises to more than half. :scared:

Sure made me think, especially when I saw an attractive long-haired woman apparently of Mexican descent sitting in a wheelchair on the Riverwalk with a cast on her leg. I can only imagine how high that figure must be for Hispanic Antonians. :grr:

[w8liftinglady]

5. That doesn't count Medicaid and CHIPS-it WOULD be 50%

[MadMaddie]

6. Why didn't the article define what types of jobs were getting filled?

I find that curious.

I grew up in San Antonio and where I lived the poverty rate was horrible.

[w8liftinglady]

7. but...but...We have more jobs!..