{"id":244528,"date":"2025-09-21T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244528\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:05:12","slug":"texas-leads-nation-in-job-growth-sets-new-employment-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244528\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Leads Nation In Job Growth, Sets New Employment Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas added more jobs than any other state over the past year, gaining 195,600 positions and setting new employment records, Gov. Greg Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/texas-leads-all-states-for-jobs-gained-over-last-12-months\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced<\/a> Thursday, Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lone Star State also led the nation in August job creation with 17,600 new positions, pushing total nonfarm employment to a record 14,347,700.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The increase outpaced national job growth by 0.5 percentage points, according to federal data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTexas is America\u2019s jobs leader,\u201d said Governor Abbott. \u201cWith the best business climate in the nation and a skilled and growing labor force, Texas is where businesses invest, jobs grow, and families thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state\u2019s labor force reached an all-time high of 15,857,300 in August. Total employment, including self-employed workers, hit 15,213,500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott attributed the growth to the state\u2019s business-friendly policies. \u201cTexas will continue to cut red tape and invest in businesses large and small to spur the economic growth of communities across our great state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor this week appointed a director for the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office. The new office will identify and eliminate unnecessary state regulations that burden businesses and residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abbott also ceremonially signed legislation expanding career and technical education programs. House Bills 20 and 120 aim to prepare more students for in-demand jobs across Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The employment data came from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas Workforce Commission. August marked the latest milestone in Texas\u2019s post-pandemic recovery and population boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas added more jobs than any other state over the past year, gaining 195,600 positions and setting new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,5026,420,358,90077,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-244528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-greg-abbott","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-workforce-commission","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115243851643884573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}