Can the college student-loan debt crisis get any worse? According to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the answer is, “Yes, and it already has.”
Our president repeatedly asserts that climate change – which now apparently means little more than bad weather - is the greatest and more immediate threat to humanity.
With billions more for transportation coupled with procurement reform this year, Texas drivers may see relief on the road ahead.
Instead, more than half of college students are “nontraditional,” a category that includes such students as those over age 25, those who work full-time, single parents, caregivers and those without a high school diploma.
Leigh Thompson's testimony in support of House Bill 40 and Senate Bill 1165 before the Texas Legislature Energy Committee of the House of Representatives.
California’s sluggish long term job growth, with the job growth rate being less than the population growth rate in the state, has contributed to the Golden State’s persistently high official unemployment rate.
Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for February 2015. Let’s recap the highlights from the report for the states with the largest populations and economies. In February, net nonfarm job creation in Texas slowed to 7,100 compared with the 2014 average of 33,950 per month...
Three bills have been filed this session that would free TxDOT to use more design-build contracts, saving as much as $1 billion per year initially and up to $33 billion over the next 20 years of road building.
Together, these open government laws reflect the strong desire of Texans to know what their government is doing, how it makes its decisions, and why. For the vast majority of policy decisions, they are in full effect, allowing the public to see what their governments are up to.
In an era where Texas is leading the way in nearly every sphere—including job creation, economic growth and entrepreneurship—it shouldn’t lag in educational freedom. It doesn’t suit the Lone Star temperament to accept second best.
Texas continued as one of the nation’s leaders in job creation with 357,300 jobs added in the last twelve months through February. The exemplary 3.1 percent rate of job creation in Texas during that period contributed to a drop in the state’s unemployment rate to a seven-year low of 4.3 percent.
Any conversation that we have about education policy needs to start and end with the question: is this good for Texas students? If the answer is yes, we should do it. If not, we shouldn’t. School choice is no exception.