Thanks to these exports, dominated by oil-related products, they supported more than 1.1 million Texas jobs in 2014, which are about 10 percent of all U.S. export-related jobs.
Despite these economic concerns and the difficulty of estimating economic and fiscal measures for two years in the future, the Comptroller’s certification provides evidence that the Legislature can fund essential government functions within population growth plus inflation and provide substantial tax relief.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
More than 1 percent of all U.S. adults are now behind bars, giving the U.S. the distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
The newly adopted standard, which has been pending since 2011 when the White House yanked back the rule at a cost of $90 billion annually, joins at least 20 other EPA rules of unprecedented scope, stringency and cost promulgated under the Obama administration.
In Ohio, Medicaid surpassed cost projections by nearly $1.5 billion in the first 18 months after expansion.
The bottom line that few Americans know, given the media’s daily drumbeat of shootings and mayhem, is that violent crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s with the gun homicide rate in particular about half today of what it was a little more than 20 years ago.
Legislators should avoid the temptation to spend every taxpayer dollar available by passing conservative budgets while keeping taxes low, as they did this past session, so that the Texas model can continue to foster economic opportunity for all. If they do this, there’s no doubt Texas will keep its high credit ratings.
Among 106 nations, Taiwan leads the way in patent production per capita over the past decade, followed closely by Japan and the United States.
Texans have had to pay higher gasoline prices and incur much damage from this antiquated 40-year ban that should end immediately, which a bill in Congress would do but looks dead on arrival at the White House.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
Solitary confinement, which segregates inmates in a 60-square-foot cell for up to 23 hours a day alone, has consistently shown to increase crime at a much greater cost to the taxpayer.