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The Federal Reserve in Houston
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Why is El Paso's job market so sluggish?
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Trade, manufacturing put Mexico back on track in 2004
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Houston in 1900 Part 1. The rise of the regional city
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Oil extraction in the Southwest
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Personal income in the Texas recession
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Federal immigration policies change Houston
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Gulf Coast expansion waits for upstream, downstream energy
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Is the recession over in El Paso?
In December 2007, the U.S. economy entered a mild recession, a downturn that would ultimately trigger the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and a fall into one of the longest and deepest recessions of the past 60 years. Growth returned to the U.S. in mid-2009 but remains too slow to make inroads into stubbornly high unemployment. Virtually no geographic area of the country was left untouched by the U.S. downturn, including El Paso, although the local economy performed much better than other border cities, such as McAllen, Brownsville and Laredo. Government-related spending, ...