Why does the Texas economy do so well year after year? What Rick Perry called the Texas Miracle can, at least in part, be attributed to the state’s ability to import people from other states and other countries: low-wage labor and high-wage labor, documented and undocumented. One of the miracle’s “dirty little secrets,” said John Hryhorchuk, senior vice president of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan think tank Texas 2036 and a former staffer in the governor’s office, “is that much of the human capital growth that has fueled the economic growth over the last twenty years has been the result of migration.”But that prosperity has bred some resentment. As rents have gone up, out-of-state newcomers taking high-wage jobs have often been better equipped to share…
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