About that Texas Miracle…

Texas job growth came mostly from government jobs

at a time when federal, state, and local governments continue to shed jobs — more than 500,000 since President Obama took office in 2009 — a bulk of the job creation in Texas has come in the public sector. While Perry espouses small government rhetoric, the ‘Texas Miracle’ created state and local government jobs at a faster rate than any state in the nation, according to 2010 Census data released Tuesday: