Re: America's richest and poorest states

And, in a listing of most abnormal, California ranked 11th, Alaska 1st.

http://money.msn.com/investing/the-most-abnormal-states-in-america

States with the most oil. Texas tops that, Alaska is 3rd, California 4th. New Mexico 5th, interestingly (had not realized it was an oil state). North Dakota 2nd.

http://money.msn.com/investing/5-states-with-the-most-oil

How many of those jobs were in Texas, I wonder?

Ah, that would be over one million jobs in Texas....with more everyday.

The article cites 2 million jobs created in 2013. Texas did NOT create 1 million jobs in 2013. North Dakota was actually the job leader last year, so skrumpie's statement "almost 50%" of jobs is as dumb as your statement that Texas created 1 million jobs in the last year.

By email, Perry spokesman Josh Havens referred to information attributed to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that Texas reaped more than 1.75 million net new jobs from March 2003 to March 2013, a period in which the United States as a whole accounted for 5.3 million net new jobs, Havens said.

A quick search didn't turn up an actual number for Texas in 2013, but I can guarantee that it wasn't a million.