{"id":412,"date":"2013-03-31T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/31\/joblessness-up-slightly-in-texas-who-gets-blame"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:40:00","slug":"joblessness-up-slightly-in-texas-who-gets-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Joblessness up slightly in Texas \u2026 who gets blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been quite fond in recent times of touting his economic policies for putting Texans to work while so many Americans elsewhere were struggling to find jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear that the jobless rate in Texas has ticked up a bit. Who is responsible for that? Is it even worth worrying about? <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/29\/texas-unemployment-rate-rose-slightly-february\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/29\/texas-unemployment-rate-rose-slightly-february\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/29\/texas-unemployment-rate-rose-slightly-february\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The national figures in recent years has shown unemployment at 7.6 to 8.5 percent. When it ticked up, we hear from President Obama\u2019s critics that his policies are the reason Americans can\u2019t find work. Chief among those critics has been Gov. Perry, who\u2019s taken to trumpeting Texas\u2019s low-tax, pro-business climate as a reason for businesses to relocate to the Lone Star State. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right about the state\u2019s pro-business environment. But the silence when not-so-good news arrives on our doorstep is equally instructive.<\/p>\n<p>I must ask: If the feds deserve blame for the bad news, don\u2019t they deserve credit for the good news? And if the state is going to take credit for its own good news, isn\u2019t there room for criticism when the jobless rate goes in the wrong direction?<\/p>\n<p>Just wondering \u2026<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been quite fond in recent times of touting his economic policies for putting Texans to work while so many Americans elsewhere were struggling to find jobs. Now we hear that the jobless rate in Texas has ticked up a bit. Who is responsible for that? Is it even worth worrying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joblessness up slightly in Texas \u2026 who gets blame?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}