Rural Texas Has Different COVID-19 Experience Than Rest of State
While COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations surge in the state’s big cities, life is almost back to normal in more than 100 Texas counties.
As...
Texans Struggle to Find Work in the Rio Grande Valley, Where Unemployment Has Nearly...
Sandra Santos has been doing everything she can to find a job since she was laid off in mid-March from working in the billing...
Thousands of Texans Still Out of Work
First-time Texas unemployment claims resumed their downward trend last week. More than 89,000 Texans submitted applications for assistance in the week that ended on...
Are Texans Ready to Catch a Flick in a Theater?
After being dark for more than two months, movie theaters are beginning to reopen in Texas.
Movie theaters were part of Texas’ first phase of...
Texas Unemployment Ticks Up Again As State Reinstates Job Search Requirements
There were 93,895 new claims for unemployment in Texas last week, according to the Labor Department. That’s up from the previous week’s total of...
Unemployed Texans Have to Start Looking for Work Again
Beginning July 6, jobless Texans will once again have to resume searching for work as a condition of continuing to receive unemployment benefits.
The work...
Three Texas Counties Declare Themselves 100% Open, but Are They Really?
Commissioners in Hood, Eastland and Stephens counties have voted to declare their counties 100% essential and sanctuaries for all businesses. While it sounds like...
Texas COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Hit New Records but No Slowing of Reopening
Texas broke two COVID-19 tracking records this week. On Thursday, the state saw its largest single-day increase in positive cases, 2,504, breaking the previous...
Houston to Relocate Two Confederate Statues
Houston is removing its two confederate monuments and giving one to an African American Museum in town.
Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Thursday that the city...
Grappling With Budget Shortfalls, Texas Cities Prepare for Hard Choices
The economic impact from the coronavirus pandemic has left some of Texas’ biggest cities facing a difficult choice: cutting services like libraries, pools and...
