(Michael Hogue) Each week in the Business Sunday print edition, the Dallas Morning News selects some key economic numbers in the news. These are the figures that appeared in May. The number of business bankruptcy filings in Texas during 2025, according to data from The Kaplan Group — a 68.3% jump from 2019 and the largest of any other state. Florida, Colorado, Arkansas and Georgia followed the Lone Star State in terms of the largest percentage gains in bankruptcy petitions, in that order.