Economy
What Economic Growth Really Means at the Community Level
A record statewide output figure can sit beside a family that feels no richer. The gap between the two is where community economics 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: drivers, dock crews and dispatchers whose work rises and falls with trade.