Texas-Size Recovery

Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has boasted of significant job growth in his state in the past few years. And for good reason: It's true. While Texas clearly hasn't avoided the recession, the state has done well in terms of increasing jobs, when compared with the recovery nationally.
Perry's claim that "40 percent … of all the jobs in America were created in Texas" since June 2009 is accurate. But it’s also true that the increase ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin - via NewsRack (Recession), FactCheck, NewsRack (Energy), Johan Jessen (t), Marc Dangeard (t), Wil Kristin (t)

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Paul Keene
4.5
by Paul Keene - Aug. 31, 2011

Pretty easy to compare facts to hype, makes for easy journalism. I wish all writing was this easy to assay.

As long as the sheep will follow without question, the far right talking heads will cherry pick the facts, bend the truth, and outright lie to keep the know nothings hearing what the want to hear.

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