(photo: eschipul)

If the Secessionist wants to own the jobs situation in Texas, then he’s got to own this as well.

No other state has added more jobs than Texas over the past year, but the state’s unemployment rate in July still was the worst it’s been in nearly a quarter of a century.

The state had a net gain of 29,300 jobs last month, yet the jobless rate rose to 8.4 percent from 8.2 percent in June, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday. The rate was 8.1 percent in July 2010.

The last time unemployment was this high was 24 years ago — July 1987 — during the state’s oil and real estate bust.

Clearly, we need to import more minimum wage jobs from California or take more federal bailouts from the Obama administration.

(h/t pontificator)