Jul 17, 2021
Texas unemployment is dropping again. The
Texas Workforce Commission announced today last month s unemployment rate was 6.5%, down a tick from May. Texas added almost 56,000 jobs in June, mostly in the leisure and hospitality and professional and business services sectors.
TWC Chair
Brian Daniel says it s proof the state is open for business.
“The Texas economy is booming. Businesses are investing in the Lone Star State at a record pace because we ve built a framework that allows free enterprise to flourish and hardworking Texans to prosper,” said Governor
Greg Abbott.
“The June jobs report shows that our young, growing, and skilled workforce has forged a diversified and resilient economy, with Texas employers adding back more than 1.1 million jobs since the end of April 2020, the peak pandemic impact on jobs. That surge in hiring continues today with as many jobs posted on TWC’s job sites as Texans looking for work. I encourage every Texan lookin
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Cliff Leonard. Saturday, he was presented the Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chief Gold Medal of Merit by
Hal Roesch, VFW national commander.
Only a handful of veterans are chosen each year to receive the award, which is given for exceptional services rendered to the country and community. He also was given a lifetime membership to the VFW. The ceremony took place at VFW Post 7909 on Blanding Boulevard.
Leonard was a Marine from 1966 to 1968 and spent 13 months in reconnaissance units in the jungles of Vietnam. After his Marine Corps service and multiple other careers, he became a sculptor who creates busts of Florida Marines who died in combat. He gives them to family at no cost. Leonard has completed about 50 since he began making them 13 years ago.
0 is getting closer and no progress is made and we are hearing the administration released a budget that includes a trillion dollars in tax hikes. peter doocy is live in washington with the latest. treasury secretary geithner was tasked with bringing the white house proposal over to capitol hill and republicans are not happy that it includes 1.6 trillion in new taxes. a trillion of that coming from the expiration for bush tax cuts for americans making over $250,000 a year. and a stimulus package worth $50 billion in 2013 alone. and 400 billion in spending cuts and those would come later. that is not enough for the republicans. i am disappointed in where we are and whoooose happened over the last couple of weeks. going over the fiscal cliff is serious business. and i am here seriously trying to resolve it and i would hope that the white house would get serious as well. a congressional republican aide said the only changes in the entitlement come from the president s budget that was