At this morning’s TribLive conversation, Comptroller Susan Combs talked about the health of the Texas economy — and whether unemployment creeping up is cause for concern.
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Video: Leppert Campaign Ad Touts Job Creation Record
U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert, the former Dallas mayor, has released a new campaign spot that boasts of his job creation experience, and takes a swipe at so-called “career politicians.”
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson interactively asks if stimulus funds created jobs in Texas, Aguilar on new voter registrar rules that could decrease voter turnout, Galbraith on a UT professor’s debunking of climate change “myths,” Grissom on an epic clash of El Paso political titans, Hamilton on the right’s new higher ed guru, Murphy maps household data from the 2010 Census, Ramsey on a coming rules fight in the Texas Senate, Root and M. Smith on Rick Perry’s performance at the New Hampshire debate and M. Smith talks public ed cuts with the state’s Superintendent of the Year: The best of our best content from October 10-14, 2011.
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Interactive: Has the Federal Stimulus Program Created Jobs in Texas?
This interactive table shows how much stimulus funding was awarded to state agencies, how it was received and spent, and the number of jobs created or retained with the money, according to quarterly reports filed by recipients of stimulus funds.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Murphy, Ramshaw and Root on Rick Perry and race, Philpott on Perry’s vague economic plans, Tan and Wiseman on Barack Obama’s foray into Texas to defend his jobs plan, Aguilar on Perry’s proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico, Ramshaw on efforts to leash rising health care costs, M. Smith on upcoming legal challenges to the state’s school finance system, Aaronson interactively explores Medicare spending proposals, Galbraith on efforts to pass — and to oppose — a $6 billion water program, Grissom on the release of a man wrongly convicted of murder and Hamilton on efforts to let the public write some legislation: The best of our best content from October 3 to 7, 2011.
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Economy
Texas Republicans Pile On Job Numbers
Texas’s congressional Republicans seized on new unemployment numbers to decry President Obama’s economic policies days after he stopped in Mesquite to sell his jobs plan.
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Video: In Mesquite, Obama Challenges GOP Leader
MESQUITE — While speaking at Eastfield College today, President Barack Obama invoked the name of a laid-off Texas teacher and challenged GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to bring up the American Jobs Act for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Obama Defends Jobs Plan in Mesquite, Calls Out GOP
President Obama delivered an impassioned defense of his jobs plan in Mesquite — and strong rhetoric against his GOP critics.
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Economy
Video: Perry “Welcomes” Obama to Texas
Rick Perry’s campaign has released a video in anticipation of President Obama’s scheduled visits to Dallas and Mesquite today. The video mocks the president’s 2009 stimulus plan before highlighting Perry’s “four core principles” for creating jobs.
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Economy
In Perry Territory, Obama to Promote Jobs Plan
President Obama, scheduled to push his jobs plan today in Dallas, is stepping into politically hostile territory to challenge Gov. Rick Perry on what the Perry campaign believes is the Texan’s strongest issue: job creation.