Prairie Fire Journal

The Texas Workforce Commission reported today that the Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in December, up from 8 percent the previous month. Statewide, the total non-agricultural labor force shrank by over 20,000 as more unemployed workers simply gave up on finding jobs.

Over 1 million Texas workers are now unemployed, a larger number than even during the Great Depression of the 1930s. And that doesn't take into account the number of unemployed agricultural workers who are not counted in the official unemployment statistics.

The economy is not getting better, it is getting worse.