Texas Jobs Boom Sputters on Immigrant Crackdown, Dallas Fed Says
Workers sort and weigh shrimp at a shrimp farm in Palacios, Texas.
Photographer: Sergio Flores/BloombergJob growth in Texas was almost flat last year as migration to the state plunged and oil prices lagged.
Employers in the state added a mere 10,700 jobs in 2025, according to new data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The 0.1% increase is the state’s weakest since 2020 and reminiscent of the employment decline following the dot-com bust, said Pia Orrenius, a labor economist at the bank.