Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.
Here’s another look at Rick Perry’s Texas Miracle. It shows the unemployment rate in Texas and in the 11 states immediately surrounding it in the Sunbelt and the lower Midwest. Bottom line: It’s doing better than four of them and worse than seven. I don’t know about you, but in my church we have a higher bar for miracles than that.
