Claim: "When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time,  America lost 2.5 million."
Fact-check: Rick Perry says that with what "we have done," Texas created 1 million jobs while rest of nation lost 2.5 million
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2011-09-11T00:00:00