{"id":471893,"date":"2026-10-20T19:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:40:12","slug":"gov-abbott-texas-leads-nation-in-job-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471893\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Abbott: Texas leads nation in job growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Texas-job-growth-leads-United-States-October-20-2026-640x400.png\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gov Abbott: Texas leads nation in job growth\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tTexas job growth leads United States \u2013 October 20, 2026 (550 KTSA)\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 New data now shows Texas added 154,300 jobs over the past 12 months, leading all states, according to the latest federal employment data.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Greg Abbott says the state\u2019s annual job growth rate of 1.1 percent outpaced the national rate by 0.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Workforce Commission reports the state had more than 14.4 million nonfarm jobs in September, while the labor force grew by 15,800 people over the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott says Texas has added more than 2.6 million jobs since he took office in 2015, and weekly wages have reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas job growth leads United States \u2013 October 20, 2026 (550 KTSA) SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[392,8003,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-471893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-greg-abbott","tag-job-growth","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}