MORE ON THE TEXAS MIRACLE

Wingnuts love to contrast the rough times California and other "liberal" states are going through with the "great" free market economy in Texas.   In turns out that Texas is only leading the nation in one category (h/t Pat Garofalo at Think Progress):

Additionally, Texas has by far the largest number of employees working at or below the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour in 2010) compared to any state, according to a BLS report. In 2010, about 550,000 Texans were working at or below minimum wage, or about 9.5 percent of all workers paid by the hour in the state. Texas tied with Mississippi for the greatest percentage of minimum wage workers…From 2007 to 2010, the number of minimum wage workers in Texas rose from 221,000 to 550,000, an increase of nearly 150 percent.