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Texas leads US in annual job growth

State added 159,400 nonfarm jobs in the year ending August 2026, outpacing national rate.

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Texas leads US in annual job growth

What this story says

  • Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs between August 2025 and August 2026.
  • The state's 1.1% annual job growth rate was 0.7 percentage points higher than the national rate.
  • Texas led all states in annual job growth, according to labor data released by state and federal agencies.
  • Governor Greg Abbott's office announced the figures.

Who covered it

Left 0%(0)Centre 67%(4)Right 33%(2)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 7 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

86/100

Craft

52/100

Hype

15/100

7 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Texas recorded the highest annual job growth rate in the United States for the 12-month period ending August 2026. Labor data released by state and federal agencies showed that Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs during this period. The state's job growth rate stood at 1.1%, which was 0.7 percentage points above the national rate.

Disagreement on announcement source

Governor Greg Abbott's office announced the figures, according to The Dallas Express News. Texas Border Business also stated Governor Greg Abbott celebrated the release of August labor market data. However, KGBT, CW39 Houston, KTSM, and KETK NEWS reported that labor data was released by the Texas Workforce Commission.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports printed below mention the 1.1% job growth rate in Texas or the 0.7 percentage point difference compared to the national rate. The digests from the centre-rated outlets did not mention Governor Greg Abbott's office as the source of the announcement.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 6 times, most recently on 21 Sept 2026, 03:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Centre

4 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated reports led with the headline "Texas boasts best annual job growth in United States." These digests stated that labor data released by the Texas Workforce Commission on Friday, August 2026, showed Texas had outpaced the rest of the United States in job growth over the past year. They noted that the data for August 2026 marked 12 months since the release of labor data in August 2025, and that Texas added jobs over that span.

Right

2 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports used the headline "Texas Added More Jobs Than Any Other State Over The Past Year." These digests reported that Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs between August 2025 and August 2026, according to labor data released by state and federal agencies. They also stated that the 12-month growth rate in Texas reached 1.1%, outpacing the national rate by 0.7 percentage points, and noted that Governor Greg Abbott’s office announced these figures.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Texas leads US in annual job growth?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 67% are rated centre, 33% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 7. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Texas leads US in annual job growth left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Texas leads US in annual job growth biased?
Texas leads US in annual job growth is one event reported by 7 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Texas leads US in annual job growth?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Texas leads US in annual job growth?
7 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
How many jobs did Texas add in the past year?
Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs between August 2025 and August 2026. This figure represents the total number of jobs gained in the state over that 12-month period, according to labor data.
How did Texas's job growth compare to the national average?
Texas's annual job growth rate was 1.1%, which outpaced the national rate by 0.7 percentage points. This indicates that Texas experienced a stronger rate of job creation compared to the country as a whole during the period.
Who announced the job growth figures for Texas?
According to some reports, Governor Greg Abbott's office announced the figures. Other reports attribute the release of the labor data to the Texas Workforce Commission.

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