In recent years, Texas Medicaid spending has doubled, on the average, every six to seven years, an eightfold increase in less than 20 years. At this explosive rate of unprecedented growth, the present $17 billion annual Texas Medicaid budget will exceed $136 billion annually – more than one-quarter of a trillion dollars ($272 billion) a biennium in less than 20 years. That amount is more than double the state’s budget today.
Family
What George Bailey Understood About Housing and Families
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey’s great ambition is not wealth or status. It is something far more ordinary and far more powerful: the ability for working families to afford a home, put down roots, and build a future together. Bedford Falls thrives not because of grand social programs, but because ordinary people can buy modest homes...
December 17, 2025