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The Texas Workforce Commission released June employment figures that showed Texas employers (texaslmi.com/) added nearly 56,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate dropped to 6.5%. “The Texas economy is booming,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement. “Businesses are investing in the Lone Star State at a record pace because we›ve built a framework that allows free enterprise to flourish and hardworking Texans to prosper.” TWC’s latest statistics show that the leisure and hospitality industry led all others in job growth, adding more than 19,000 jobs. Education and health services employment ranked second, adding 9,500 jobs in June.

As I on July 20, finish writing this week’s column, I would like to acknowledge the fifty-second anniversary of the United States successfully putting two men on the moon and bringing them safely home again. What a testament this was and still is to the ability of the human race to accomplish great things through goal setting, hard work and dedication along with a reliance on guidance from above.

“I think you missed a spot over there!”