Pct. without health insurance: 23.7% (the highest) >
Pct. below poverty line: 17.0% (9th lowest) >
Unemployment: 8.5% (23rd highest)
Texas managed to spend the third least per capita in 2009, and as a partial consequence has the second lowest debt per capita, a mere $1,240 per person. Austere spending comes at a price, however. Nearly a quarter of the state’s residents are without health insurance. Also, only 80.9% of Texans 25 years or older graduated from high school. While this is an improvement from its 2003 rate of 77%, it is tied with California for worst among all states.
I wonder if they are including illegal immigrants in that number for uninsured persons? Also, how many Katrina refugees that are still here are without a job or health insurance?
A certain church group gave P-R-I-M-E acreage to them. We're talking the highest valued land in the county. They're constantly building new houses on it all tax free.