Texas tops nation in job growth, analysis shows
Dallas Business Journal
Date: Monday, July 25, 2011, 9:51am CDT - Last Modified: Monday, July 25, 2011, 11:38am CDT
Texas led the nation in adding jobs between June 2006 and June 2011.
When it comes to adding jobs, nobody is bigger than Texas.
That's the conclusion of an analysis of nonfarm jobs between June 2006 and June 2011 from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by On Numbers, a feature of American City Business Journals
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On Numbers reported that Texas added 537,500 nonfarm jobs during that period, which is nearly 10 times as many as second-place finisher Louisiana, which added 55,900 jobs. North Dakota topped the country in percentage gain at 11,84 percent.
Texas had a 5.35 percent increase in jobs during that period.