8% to 11% is not 50%. It is 3% higher.
No wonder whenever conservatives get into power they screw everything up.
The budgets in Texas have been getting slashed for years, now we are losing 1,000's of jobs with State, Local, and Teaching jobs getting laid off. Just none of the media in Texas want to take this administration to task for what they are really doing to us.
Totally making numbers up here:
Year 3045:
Number of people in state: 1,000,000
Number of people unemployed: 80,000
Unemployment rate: 8% (80,000 / 1,000,000 = 0.08 = 8%)
Year 3046:
Number of people in state: 1,000,000
Number of people unemployed: 110,000
Unemployment rate: 11% (110,000 / 1,000,000 = 0.11 = 11%)
Unemployment increase/decrease between 3045 and 3046 based on number of population: 11% - 8% = 3% of population is unemployed which were employed
Unemployment percentage difference between 3045 and 3046: (11% - 8%) / 8% = 0.375 = 37.5% INCREASE
Unemployment percentage difference calculated the other way: (11% - 8%) / 11% = 0.273 = 27.3% decrease if the opposite had occurred.
Tell me that ANY government wouldn't be advertising it the second way (27.3%) if they had gone down (good news), but they advertise the first way (3%) when the news is bad, and it goes up.
The numbers aren't wrong. It's just what you're trying to downplay.