Rick Perry’s Job Rate was Four Times the National Average while Governor of Texas
Perry’s 14 years as Chief Executive of the country’s second largest state, the job rate rose nearly four times that of the national average.
That’s getting things done!
That’s showing the people you care about what really matters.
That’s what being a leader is.
While Rick Perry was governor of Texas, his state added more than 2.2 million jobs at a growth rate of nearly four times the national rate, but an economist says governors and mayors attract jobs rather than actually creating them.
“That doesn’t mean these elected are irrelevant to job growth,” economist Jared Bernstein says, reports NPR. “While the aggregate quantity of jobs in a nation is largely driven by macro and global trends, there’s a lot sub-national officials can do to try to encourage the jobs that are created to locate in their states and cities. They affect less the number of jobs than where those jobs end up.”
But that doesn’t mean the numbers aren’t certifiably high for the former Texas governor, who says the incredible job growth in his state is one reason Americans should choose him as their next president.
During Perry’s 14 years in office, Texas added more than 2.2 million jobs, a growth rate of more than 23 percent, according to NPR’s analysis of state employment data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
The data showed that there are only three GOP candidates or potential hopefuls who can claim job growth that was faster than the national rate, and those are Perry in the lead, followed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
In comparison to Perry’s numbers, U.S. employment grew by just over 6 percent, meaning Perry’s job growth was about 3.8 times as fast, and Perry, during his announcement speech, pointed that out.
Wild Thing’s comment…………
These numbers probably will mean nothing to many voters because too few people really pay attention. I wish they would because it does mean something to have been the kind of leader Perry was as Gov. . He was fantastic.