As president of the Texas Business Leadership Council, nearly every day I hear from business leaders across Texas about their need for labor, with a high demand for data analysts, health care workers, cybersecurity professionals, and many positions in manufacturing. As of March 2023, we still had more than 800,000 job openings in the state, and we’re creating jobs faster than we can fill them. Texas ranks first in the nation in over-the-year jobs added in 2022, according to the Texas Workforce Commission…
