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Statements about Jobs
Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Half-True

Beyond a governor's control

Says more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Half-True

That's the total and includes government jobs

Says the private sector in Texas created 1 million jobs over the past decade.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Half-True

Ups and downs not in Perry's control

Says Texas’ unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Half-True

Many factored thing

"When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time, (the rest of) America lost 2.5 million."

John Cornyn

John Cornyn

True

Unsaid: Better than now

Congressional Budget Office "says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!"

Mike Villarreal

Mike Villarreal

Half-True

Wrong starting point

Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent."

Lloyd Doggett

Lloyd Doggett

True

Big state, big numbers

"Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas" which is "tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States."

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kay Bailey Hutchison

False

Private sector saw gains

"The only growth sector that we’ve had in the last two years in America is government growth."

David Dewhurst

David Dewhurst

False

Someone else's bad math

Says President Barack Obama’s "own economists say the stimulus cost $278K per job ‘created.’ "

Eddie Rodriguez

Eddie Rodriguez

True

Say bye-bye to 5,727 positions

"We’re losing almost 6,000 state jobs."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Half-True

Not counting jobs added in 19 states

"Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in Texas."

Texas Public Policy Foundation

Texas Public Policy Foundation

Half-True

Perspectives on "job creation" vary

Says that in the last five years, Texas "created more jobs than all other states combined."

Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Half-True

Unemployment had been dropping since November

"Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up."

Garnet Coleman

Garnet Coleman

Half-True

10-plus, sure. Twenty? Nope.

Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

True

More than 100,000 jobs ahead of the Pennsylvania, which had the second largest net gain

"Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state."

Boyd Richie

Boyd Richie

Mostly False

We missed the "calls for layoffs" headline for a reason

Says Texas Republican leaders "have proposed laying off thousands of teachers."

Chris Gregoire

Chris Gregoire

Half-True

Evergreen leads Lone Star in three of five rankings

Says Washington state has "consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business — ahead of Texas."

Bill White

Bill White

Mostly False

Methodology has major flaw

"Of those 850,000 (new Texas) jobs, most were public-sector jobs and minimum-wage jobs."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

True

Net job gains bigger than Cowtown population

"More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth."

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