Economy
What Economic Growth Really Means at the Community Level
A record statewide output figure and a family that feels no richer can share the same year, and the gap between them is where community economics actually lives.
Economy
This desk follows the Texas economy where it actually operates: in the payrolls, the border crossings, and the warehouse belts rather than in a single headline figure. We cover the jobs and industries that employ Texans, the trade and freight that keep goods moving, the workforce being trained to fill open roles, and the uneven way regional growth reaches some communities faster than others. The aim is to explain how the numbers connect to the work, and to the paycheck a family in one county actually takes home.
Economy
Jobs, Trade and the Texas Freight Workforce
The tonnage crossing at Laredo is also a payroll, and the drivers, dock crews, and dispatchers behind it rise and fall with trade across the whole state.