Texas GOP Vote

A recent CNBC study named Texas the top state for doing business. CNBC's Power Lunch dug in a little deeper by interviewing the mayor of Midland, Texas, Wes Perry. Midland's unemployment rate is 4.67%, while the national unemployment rate is hovering just under 10%.  Read more »

LatinoTalk is America's only talk show on a MISSION! Today, guns, guns and more guns! I love guns and gun people and the 2nd amendment, but its all a bit confusing. Let me explain. I speak again of the rapidly changing gun market, the challenges and politics of the 2nd amendment and the changing availability and cost of ammunition. 

I discuss how our flagging economy appears to have been temporarily and artificially bouyed by the foolish and self defeating Obama's spending   Read more »

The following is a statement that came in from the Republican Party of Texas:

Today we learned that initial jobless claims jumped to 500,000. That's a half million American families who are struggling to make ends meet in Obama's flagging economy,   Read more »

Paul Gigot from The Wall Street Journal joins Fox News to discuss the state of our economy and who exactly is to blame. The Democrats are notorious for pinning all the blame on Bush, but after 19 months of Obama's presidency, it's time he accept some of the blame. Obama's policies have passed, and the country continues to go deeper and deeper into debt. In 2007, the deficit was $161 billion, while the 2011 projected deficit is $1.3 trillion.  Read more »

The July national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data from the payroll survey showed total nonfarm employment suffered a net loss of 131,000 largely due to declines in government jobs (143,000 temporary census positions were terminated last month).  Read more »

Texas initial jobless claims for the week ending July 24 fell 9.5 percent to reach 17,894, the lowest level since the first week of June. However, the four-week moving average, a steadier gauge of claims activity, has remained above 19,000 for the fourth straight week – averages above this level had not been reported since early February of this year.  Read more »