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Texas economy goes out in March like a lamb
More grim news from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on the Texas economy. Nothing seemed to be improving by the end of March. “The Texas economy continues to slow. Almost every region and economic...
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released a report urging Texas lawmakers to avoid using federal stimulus money to balance the budget. The report said Texas would lose 134,000 jobs if the...
View ArticleWorkforce chairman says benefits gap won’t be months after all
Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken said today it won’t be months before people who are exhausting jobless benefits at the end of July can get a 13-week extension. Agency staff had said this...
View ArticleWorkforce Commission approves emergency rule to speed benefits
The Texas Workforce Commission unanimously approved emergency rules today to allow jobless Texans who are exhausting their unemployment benefits to get a 13-week extension. The commission late last...
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Dallas Feb says Texas economy stabilizing
A report out today from the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas says there are signs that the Texas economy is flattening out “with some hope of improvement toward the end of the year.” Texas employment...
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Investments rebounding at state Teachers Retirement System
Earlier this week we reported on how investments have been coming back for the state university endowments and trust funds managed by the University of Texas Investment Management Co. A new report...
View ArticleHutchison gets praise and criticism, Kilgore drops out, and employee turnover...
Perot endorses Hutchison Billionaire and former Reform Party presidential nominee Ross Perot wrote a piece in Wednesday’s Dallas Morning News in favor of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Perot used the...
View ArticleShami offers money-back guarantee
Houston businessman Farouk Shami is prepared to give a new sales pitch to voters: more jobs or your money back. Shami filmed two commercials that will air in the coming weeks where he promises to...
View ArticleMedina’s clothes, Shami’s plan and Perry’s enterprise woes
About Medina’s campaign-funded clothes… Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina is defending her use of campaign funds to pay for her clothes and shoes that she wears on the campaign trail. In...
View ArticleTexas unemployment rate drops
The unemployment rate in Texas dropped last month, the Texas Workforce Commission reports. Here’s the agency’s press release: AUSTIN — The Texas unemployment rate declined in September to 8.1 percent,...
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