The Texas Tribune reports:

On the national stage, Texas’ economy is its best selling point. But this so-called “Texas Miracle” doesn’t extend statewide: In the border region, unemployment reaches as high as 13.2 percent, and the median income is 30 percent lower than the statewide average. The Rio Grande Valley has been “probably hardest hit of any area in the state” by the national recession, said Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission.

The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area has the highest unemployment rate of any metropolitan region in Texas. Brownsville has the lowest median income at $21,800 a year — 30 percent lower than the statewide median, and 35 percent lower than the national median. El Paso has the highest annual income of Texas’ border cities, at $25,717 annually. But the unemployment rate, while lower than in Brownsville and McAllen, still soars up to 10.9 percent, compared to 7.6 percent in Austin-Round Rock and 8.2 percent in San Antonio.