Rick Perry brags about the wonderful job he's done of job creation in Texas, but
the truth about the Texas "jobs miracle" is certainly nothing to brag about. I have posted before about how most of the jobs Perry brags about are minimum wage jobs with no benefits, but it gets even worse than that. When you subtract the growth of the labor force in the state from the number of new jobs you find that there are now more than 300,000 people out of work in Texas than before the jobs were created. In other words, Texas has lost ground on the jobs front (and lost more ground than any other state).
So, unemployed workers in the Rust Belt flock to Texas, hearing about all the jobs here. This skews the numbers on this graph in favor of the Rust Belt and against Texas by expanding our labor force and decreasing theirs.
ReplyDeleteDo you just love statistics?
The problem with that analysis is that the increase in work force is attributed mainly to undocumented workers coming to Texas to try and get the low wage, no benefit jobs being created - not rust belt workers looking for good jobs (which aren't being created).
ReplyDeleteThis article, entitled "More illegal immigrants from India crossing border," seems to contradict your analysis.
ReplyDelete"Indians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more 'high-value cargo' like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more than $20,000 for the journey." [Emphasis added]