Claim: Starting in December 2007, "1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs."
Fact-check: Rick Perry says Texas gained a million jobs while rest of country lost 400,000
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2015-01-22T00:00:00