FACT SHEET: Rick Perry’s Recession
admin | Sep 19, 2009 | Comments 0
The number of Texans without a job has hit record numbers in the past several months:
| UNEMPLOYMENT IN TEXAS – 2009[1] | |
| January | 796,464 |
| February | 782,642 |
| March | 791,791 |
| April | 754,514 |
| May | 821,737 |
| June | 964,602 |
| July | 998,383 |
| August | 981,952 |
Job Loss in Rick Perry’s administration has been the worst Texas has seen since the 1970s and 1986 and 1987:
(Texas LMCI TRACER Generated graphic, with modifications to highlight Perry’s years as governor)
Texas ranks 7th in among the states in the percent of our children living in poverty[2]
Texas ranks 3d among the state in terms of the percentage of our population living below the Federal Poverty Level[3]
Texas ranks 3rd among the nation in terms of the percent of our population with food insecurity.[4].
Texas ranks third in the nation in terms of the percent of women in our population living in poverty. [5].
[1] Figures are not seasonally adjusted. Source: Texas Workforce Commission
[2] U.S. Census Bureau, R1704. Percent of Children Under 18 Years Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months, 2007
[3]Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, State Health Facts Online
[4] U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Household Food Insecurity in the United States, 2006 (November 2007) at Table D-1.
[5] U.S. Census Bureau, Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2006, Table 4b, Reported Voting and Registration of the Voting-Age Population, by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, for States: November 2006
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