Texas House Democratic leader Jim Dunnam today probed Gov. Rick Perry's lead appointee on workforce policy issues about the delicate subject of looming employer tax hikes. Higher rates of unemployment insurance tax would refresh the state's tapped-out unemployment compensation trust...
Kay Bailey Hutchison said Rick Perry is making a mistake turning down $555 million in federal unemployment money from the stimulus package. She says a real leader would have done more than just reject the money. She says there's a...
Robert T. Garrett reports: AUSTIN -- Texas should take a half-billion more federal stimulus dollars that it can tap by allowing more jobless workers to qualify, Democrat legislative leaders said today. The Democrats said GOP Gov. Rick Perry should consider...
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