Texans' real median household income rose 1.3 percent in 2008, making the state one of only five with increases in the first calendar year of the U.S. recession. During better times, 33 states posted income gains in 2007 and only Michigan suffered a decline.

Helped somewhat by a weak dollar and strong exports, Texas has shed manufacturing jobs at a 1.4 percent rate so far this year, a much slower pace than the nation’s 3.4 percent decline.

The presentation of a method for building a time series regional forecasting model for Texas that requires only ordinary least squares regressions to forecast the variables.

This issue of Banking and Community Perspectives analyzes the dynamics of concentrated poverty in rural and urban settings.

The Texas housing market enjoyed a remarkable upswing in the middle of this decade. ; Home sales and building accelerated in 2004 as the state's economic engine revved up, generating strong population and employment growth. Historically low interest rates attracted new homebuyers, while the rise...

U.S. financial woes are taking a toll on commercial real estate> investment in Texas. Uncertainty is prevalent among buyers and> sellers of office, industrial, retail and apartment properties,> and property sales are likely to remain subdued in the near term.

The Texas cities along the Mexican border have sustained relatively strong job growth in recent years. A key factor has been a booming health care industry, driven by rising population and the large share of the population covered by government-sponsored health insurance.

Austin, Texas, February 27, 2007 ; "Last year, employment grew twice as fast in Texas as it did in the rest of the United States. Construction payrolls grew at five times the U.S. rate. We added 26,000 net new factory jobs in 2006, while the nation's manufacturers posted an overall loss of...