{"id":1537,"date":"2015-01-15T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2015-01-15T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:48:52","slug":"perryman-says-area-economy-outpaces-the-rest-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/perryman-says-area-economy-outpaces-the-rest-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"PERRYMAN SAYS AREA ECONOMY OUTPACES the REST of the STATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drop in gasoline prices is equivalent to $100 per month or a $1,200 annual pay raise for the average driver, according to economist Dr. Ray Perryman, president of the Waco-based economic research firm, the Perryman Group.\u00a0 He predicted Tyler and East Texas&#8217; economy would show a 2.3% increase in employment in the next 5 years and about a 4.6% increase in output.\u00a0 Perryman said strengthening of the dollar, politics, OPEC decisions and issues between Russia and Ukraine are contributing to this.\u00a0 Since our area is so DIVERSIFIED we should proceed along as he\u00a0 predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drop in gasoline prices is equivalent to $100 per month or a $1,200 annual pay raise for the average driver, according to economist Dr. Ray Perryman, president of the Waco-based economic research firm, the Perryman Group.\u00a0 He predicted Tyler and East Texas&#8217; economy would show a 2.3% increase in employment in the next 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}