Texas saw greater increase in job openings than US and Cali for Jan

Texas both experienced a greater increase in job openings than California and US for the month of January.

January 2015

State Total Openings Monthly Change Yearly Change
California 425,877 -2.33% -5.15%
Texas 366,165 35.19% 27.41%
USA 4,393,597 27.61% 22.75%

Source: BLS

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Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.