Contributor's Corner

by Juliet Stipeche As we reflect on the past few years and look towards the future, it’s evident that the Texas workforce has experienced significant changes. The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped our labor market, and it accelerated some trends while giving…

Texans are hardly averse to bragging about Texas. Perhaps that’s why “everything is bigger in Texas,” as they say. Well, here at the Texas Economic Development Corporation (TxEDC) we certainly aren’t shy when it comes to bragging about the strength…

What were you doing in 2002? In Texas, the year was filled with milestones: Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith broke the record for the most rushing yards by an NFL player. U.S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas retired from…

For the 20th consecutive year, Texas tops the list of states for the amount of exports as measured in dollars, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). As of December 2021, Texas exports for the year totaled $375.3…

Texas is poised to become the semiconductor hub of North America, thanks in large part to the leadership of Gov. Greg Abbott and our elected leaders in Washington, D.C. In July, U.S. Congress passed the CHIPS for America Act to…

Population growth in Texas’s big metro areas grabs so much of the attention when we think about population growth across the state. And in the recent past, growth in metro suburbs has generated a lot of buzz. But as a…

In Texas, a state that encompasses 268,597 square miles — more territory than the country of France — a network of more than 313,000 miles of public highways helps stitch together an impressive economic network. The thousands of miles of…

If Texas were a country — and many of us feel like it already is — it would rank fourth in the world for crude oil production, behind the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Overall, Texas reigns as the…

Texas is going to need a bigger trophy case. Sports teams win trophies for accomplishments big and small, but championship trophies are the singular physical representation of a team’s season’s worth of hard work and dedication.  Players and coaches who…

December 2021 ended a challenging year, but it also brought some good news in terms of Texas’s ability to deliver high-quality and skilled talent for years to come. The Dec. 15 announcement that Baylor University and The University of Texas…