Claim: "In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Fact-check: UPDATED: Rick Perry says Texas created 1.5 million jobs in seven years, rest of country down 400,000
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2015-06-08T00:00:00