Senate Republicans cite deficit, kill state fiscal aid

Garrett reports:
Senate Republicans in Washington late today successfully beat back an election-year bill that, among other things, would keep Texas' looming budget shortfall from growing by nearly $1 billion.
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Texas employers add 43,600 jobs

Brendan Case reports on the latest TWC figures:

 Texas employers expanded payrolls by 43,600 jobs in May, the largest monthly gain in more than three years, according to preliminary data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
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Texas jobs up slightly in March; unemployment rate steady

Brendan Case blogs from our Economy Watch blog about the latest employment numbers in Texas:

Texas employers expanded payrolls by 8,500 jobs in March, while the jobless rate remained unchanged at 8.2 percent for the fifth month in a row, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday.


Government number-crunchers also made a significant revision to February's payroll employment data. Instead of losing 13,000 payrolls jobs in February, as preliminary data indicated last month, the state added 4,300 jobs.

Texas has added 32,500 jobs during the last six months, and the state unemployment rate remains well below the national average of 9.7 percent.

Texas loses 13,000 jobs in February; state unemployment holds steady at 8.2 percent

TWC reports January's small job gains wiped out in February. Brendan Case reports:

Texas employers trimmed non-farm payrolls by 13,000 jobs in February, the Texas Workforce Commission announced this morning. That erased a revised gain of 12,600 jobs in January (the preliminary figure for January, announced earlier this month, was a 14,800-job gain).

Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M

AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber reports on new employment figures.