Perry's jobs record in Texas isn't clear-cut

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Not all Texans benefit

Not every Texan shares in the state's good times. About a million Texans are out of work and about a half-million, many of them young and undereducated, draw minimum wage or less. While booming communities like Rockwall, 22 miles east of downtown Dallas, draw national attention with a job growth rate approaching 100 percent, the border counties of Cameron and Hidalgo worry about double-digit unemployment.

"Perry talks about the jobs and things, but to a lot of people here who are unemployed, he's talking about some jobs that a lot of people aren't seeing," said Marcus Watson of Fort Worth, who lost his job as a technician for a French-based company nearly three years ago.



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