{"id":458,"date":"2016-03-26T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/03\/26\/5-economic-benefits-of-ports-from-senator-hinojosa\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:50:00","slug":"5-economic-benefits-of-ports-from-senator-hinojosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-economic-benefits-of-ports-from-senator-hinojosa\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Economic Benefits of Ports from Senator Hinojosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chuy Hinojosa highlights these economic benefits of ports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ports are economic drivers:\n<ul>\n<li>Generating $270 billion a year in economic activity<\/li>\n<li>Generating $6 billion in state and local taxes per year<\/li>\n<li>1.4 million jobs<\/li>\n<li>generate $82.8 billion in personal income<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ports of entry, and bridges, facilitate a $200 billion annual trade with Mexico<\/li>\n<li>3 of our ports are in the nation&#8217;s Top 10 by tonnage\n<ul>\n<li>#2 Houston<\/li>\n<li>#4 Beaumont<\/li>\n<li>#7 Corpus Christi (7th)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The #1 fresh produce port of entry in the U.S. for 2016 will be the\u00a0Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Port Capital Funding improvements are critical to retain Texas ports competitive advantage<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonitor.com\/opinion\/commentary-texas-ports-are-portal-to-a-profitable-future\/article_04cc5fea-ec9d-11e5-bb04-0f7d6ae012c5.html?mode=jqm\">The McAllen Monitor Op-Ed |\u00a0COMMENTARY: Texas ports are portal to a profitable future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chuy Hinojosa highlights these economic benefits of ports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ports are economic drivers:\n<ul>\n<li>Generating $270 billion a year in economic activity<\/li>\n<li>Generating $6 billion in state and local taxes per year<\/li>\n<li>1.4 million jobs<\/li>\n<li>generate $82.8 billion in personal income<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ports of entry, and bridges, facilitate a $200 billion annual trade with Mexico<\/li>\n<li>3 of our ports are in the nation&#8217;s Top 10 by tonnage\n<ul>\n<li>#2 Houston<\/li>\n<li>#4 Beaumont<\/li>\n<li>#7 Corpus Christi (7th)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The #1 fresh produce port of entry&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}