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Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 740 -- Texas Only State To Add Jobs Through Recession.
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This morning, the official national employment numbers came out, and the unemployment rate actually fell from 10.1% to 9.7%, despite a loss of 20,000 jobs in January.
Let's examine state-by-state, and look at Texas versus the rest of the nation over the course of the recession:
Over the past three years, every other state among the top 10 largest lost jobs, but Texas added them. Texas is also one of only two big states to add any significant private sector jobs over the past decade.
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