The latest US Census data comes as Texas continues to act as a de facto juggernaut when it comes to transplants - adding more than any other state in the past year.
The “7 Oaks Ranch” of Crockett and Val Verde County has been selected to receive the 2021 Lone Star award tonight, representing the Edwards Plateau Eco-Region. The property is located south of Ozona, Texas and northwest of Del Rio, TX within the Pecos and Devils River watersheds and at a meeting point of the Chihuahua Desert and Edwards Plateau convergence.
Texas Association of Business asks Gov. Abbott to stop accepting, distributing weekly $300 in federal aid Employers believe that supplemental UI benefit payments from Washington is disincentivizing work and resulting in many good Texas jobs going unfilled. Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 12:02 PM CDT May 13, 2021
TYLER, Texas The Texas Association of Business, along with 37 business associations and chambers of commerce, sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott and the Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, Bryan Daniel, asking them to consider ending Texas’s participation in the supplemental federal UI payment which stacks on top of standard unemployment insurance.
Employers are citing the $300 additional weekly federal stimulus payment as the biggest barrier to fill their job openings and some states have already announced they are ending participation in this program.