The numbers don’t lie: Since 2000, Texas has created 2.1 million jobs, more than double any other state – that’s 30 percent of all the jobs created in the U.S. of A. Seven of the top 10 cities for projected job growth through 2015 will be in Texas. Analysts predict during the next five years, Texas will record an annual job growth rate of 2.7 percent – the fastest and best in the country. And corporate America likes what it sees in Texas: Apple AAPL -0.24% is hiring nearly 4,000 more workers for its Austin facility, brokerage Charles Schwab SCHW +0.27% is leaving California in droves for Austin and El Paso , and Toyota is packing up its North American headquarters, saying “sayonara” to California, and moving to the Dallas metroplex.
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