Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a historic $4 billion tax and fee relief package that he said was aimed at achieving a “new era of job growth.”
Event Recap of the Western Civilization Summit and screening of “Courageous Learning” on June 9, 2015.
According to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 7 in 10 Americans have heard little or nothing about King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court case that will, any day now, decide the fate of Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans.
Last year, the Military Order of the World Wars approached the Texas Public Policy Foundation about having someone present on the benefits of a free enterprise system at their Southwest Youth Leadership Conference aboard the U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christi.
The latest report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows that many states economies improved in 2014. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of inflation-adjusted economic output, increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia, and the entire U.S. real GDP increased 2.2 percent last year after a 1.9 percent increase in 2013.
Allowing the bank’s charter to expire would be a good start toward rebuilding a strong U.S. economy.
Even before the last gavel ended the 84th Texas Legislature, much of the media coverage began centering on the failures and disappointments regarding many key issues. Unfortunately, this gloom-and-doom rhetoric has overshadowed many unprecedented successes and reforms, particularly in criminal justice.
Despite the potential for telemedicine to increase access to care in Texas, state regulatory agencies and lawmakers have failed to pave the way for innovation, and in fact have worked to thwart the innovative use of emerging health care technologies like telemedicine.
Nonetheless, population growth in the Lone Star State is expected to continue for the foreseeable future and Texas must create plans to develop, conserve, and use water resources responsibly.
How have universities, whose defining mission requires that students examine some thoughts and projects that might prove to be unsettling, become such havens of monochrome thinking?
From 1980 to 2010, the number of female prisoners multiplied by 646 percent — increasing from about 15,000 to 113,000 inmates nationally. That spike is 150 percent the rate of male prisoners during that time period.
With the ongoing weakness in the price of oil, the Legislature’s work will go a long way toward showing critics that Texas’ success has more to do with good public policy than with good luck. Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article23915161.html#storylink=cpy