This Op-Ed originally appeared in the Houston Business Journal on October 6, 2017. Women investing in themselves represent one of the greatest potentials for job growth, and my goal as governor is to make Texas the No. 1 state for women-owned businesses. The nearly 1...
This Op-Ed from Governor Greg Abbott first appeared in the Longview News-Journal, February 21, 2015. By Greg Abbott Longview News-Journal Jobs are growing in Texas and more families in Longview, my boyhood home, are sharing in the promise of Texas. But there’s more...
More than 19,000 veterans were out of work last year in Texas. That is unacceptable. Texans have long defended the nation, sending our sons and daughters to fight in the trenches of Europe, on the high seas and remote islands in the Pacific, in the jungles and...
Greg Abbott has record of fighting against President Obama’s overreaching Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he will continue protecting Texans from job-killing energy regulations as governor. Today, the EPA unveiled punishing new regulations on the energy...
As governor, Greg Abbott will fight for the free market principles that have made Texas the national leader in job creation year after year. The latest job numbers are out, and April 2014 was another strong month for Texas. According to the Texas Workforce Commission,...