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half of all the jobs created in america. >> that's governor perry yesterday. you're going to hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that's out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than doubled in texas over the last four years and also texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more th...

first the jobs. >> we created more jobs than any other state in the nation. as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. >> that's governor perry yesterday. you're going to hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that's out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than do...

Your reaction to that. here is how they defend the purchase of these ipads. >> in the ipad, it's a tool of the future that students can use in the classroom to expand their learning experience. >> you're not buying that. you say $25,000 is a waste of money. why? >> well, first of all, let me just say that the gentleman, superintendent zapantis is a wonderful superintendent who i have great respect for and he works very hard for our school district. first of all, i'm not buying that it's going to cost $25,000. that's a figure floated to the press. we've asked for the bottom line of how much thi...

Anybody want to give me a story. yes. you. >> my teacher actually got up and talked about you, glenn and said you were a liar, that you knew you were lying, you were just doing it to make money. i had your book with me. i had "broke." so i'm carrying around "broke" and every classroom i went into, even after that, a professor said that guy is crazy. don't read him. he's doing it for money. i said no, he speaks the truth. >> glenn: did you ask them, could you please take this book and dissect it and show me where? show me where this guy is wrong? >> that's kind of what i presented to him. >> gl...

Book and dissect it and show me where? show me where this guy is wrong? >> that's kind of what i presented to him. >> glenn: they didn't do it, did they? >> no, they kept double-talk. >> glenn: the first time we did it. i did an inconvenient book. the press hammered me for it. because they said you didn't have any footnotes. how can we tell where you got all your facts? so when i wrote "broke" we have, i think there is 50 pages, a wol section. no one has ever reviewed the book. we've had -- i've challenged students to take that book in, because they said the same thing. professor says that's r...