Texas is leading the way in U.S. population growth. The Census Bureau said Thursday that seven of the top 15 fastest-growing cites are in Texas. They’re clustered around big oil and gas boomtowns like Dallas and Houston, or tech hubs like Austin. Sometimes population equals prosperity…People are moving there for jobs. “Naturally if there’s a lot of hiring you would expect people to migrate in,” says Paul Gottlieb, an economist at Rutgers. “But the jobs have not necessarily been very high paying.”
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