Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How Rick Perry Created Jobs in Texas

By Rick Newman

Posted: August 16, 2011

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It sounds like an outsized Texas boast, but the numbers support Rick Perry when he claims that Texas has created more than one-third of the jobs in the United States since the economic recovery began in 2009.

There's an important caveat, however, that the Texas governor is unlikely to volunteer: Virtually all of those new jobs are in the government sector, not in private enterprise.

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