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  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 2.8 percent in 2023, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.2 to 3.3 percent.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 2.6 percent in 2023, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.0 to 3.2 percent.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Recent growth of professional services jobs favors select Texas counties

    Professional services jobs have grown faster in Texas than in the U.S. since 2020, partly because of business relocations to the state. This expansion has been highly geographically clustered, with 10 of Texas’ 254 counties accounting for more than 92 percent of the statewide growth.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 2.8 percent in 2023, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.1 to 3.5 percent.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 2.8 percent in 2023, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.1 to 3.5 percent.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates that jobs will increase 2.8 percent in 2023, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.0 to 3.5 percent.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    High-tech hotspot Austin works to solve labor, housing issues

    In the fourth stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour, Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with Austin business and community leaders in January to learn about the area’s strengths, challenges and outlook.

  • Dallas Fed Communities

    Did expanded Child Tax Credit enable parents in financially vulnerable households to work during pandemic?

    Social scientists have found in some instances that safety-net programs sometimes reduce recipients’ incentive to work and thereby provide a headwind to U.S. economic growth.

  • Restoring price stability

    Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan delivered this address at Prairie View A&M University.

  • Labor Market Effects of Credit Constraints: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    This paper exploits the 1997 and 2003 constitutional amendments in Texas—allowing home equity loans and lines of credit for non-housing purposes—as natural experiments to estimate the effect of easier credit access on the labor market.