Go Texas! Latest stats

[w8liftinglady]

( a thank you to my editor for publishing this)

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2011/02/15/news/doc4d5ad00756d33438192455.txt

Texas on the Brink report released
By EMILY RAMSHAW
Texas Tribune
Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:21 PM CST
Texas’ superlatives are nothing to brag about, according to the fifth edition of “Texas on the Brink,” an annual review that ranks the state on dozens of factors ranging from health insurance to voter turnout.

Despite having the highest birth rate, Texas has the worst rate of women with health insurance, and the worst rate of pregnant women receiving prenatal care in the first trimester, according to the report commissioned by the Legislative Study Group, a liberal-leaning research caucus in the Texas House.

While Texas has the second-highest public school enrollment, the state ranks last in the percentage of people 25 and older with a high school diploma. And though Texas has the highest percent of its population without health insurance, the state is 49th in per capita spending on Medicaid, and dead last in per capita spending on mental health, according to the report.

Here’s a look at how Texas compares to other states:

At the bottom:

• Tax expenditures per capita (47th)

• Percent of population 25 and older with a high school diploma (50th)

• Percent of poor people covered by Medicaid (49th)

• Percent of population with employer-based health insurance (48th)

• Per capita spending on mental health (50th)

• Per capita spending on Medicaid (49th)

• Percent of non-elderly women with health insurance (50th)

• Percent of women receiving prenatal care in first trimester (50th)

• Average credit score (49th)

• Workers’ compensation coverage (50th)

Near the top:

• Number of executions (1st)

• Public school enrollment (2nd)

• Percent of uninsured children (1st)

• Percent of children living in poverty (4th)

• Percent of population uninsured (1st)

• Percent of population living below poverty (4th)

• Percent of population with food insecurity (2nd)

• Overall birth rate (2nd)

• Amount of carbon dioxide emissions (1st)

• Amount of toxic chemicals released into water (1st)

• Amount of hazardous waste generated (1st)

[hamsterjill]

1. Yes, we're SO proud of Gov. Goodhair!

Sarcasm, of course.

What happened to the Texa(n)s that I used to love????!!!! I am so ashamed!

[AnneD]

4. Hold on to your hat....

it is about to get worse. The legislation is in session, there is a budget deficit, and there are more GOP's than cockroaches in Houston.

[w8liftinglady]

25. and schools are on the cutting board, BIGTIME. It Sucks!

[sharesunited]

8. Rick Perry wants the GOP presidential nomination. He might just get it, too!

[KamaAina]

2. I flipped on the tube one Sunday morning in San Antonio

to learn that fully one-third of Texans are uninsured.

In San Antonio, the nation's eighth-largest city, that figure rises to more than half.

Which made me wonder about the pretty Latina woman I saw down on the Riverwalk, sitting in a wheelchair with a cast on her leg. :scared:

[hamsterjill]

13. I live in San Antonio and a man just died last week at the ER

He'd been waiting at the ER for something like 16 hours, and they found him dead in his chair. He was at University Hospital, where most of the uninsured people either go or are eventually sent. Broke my heart!

But we are FULL of Republicans who don't get it! They will still vigorously support the Repukes and condemn anyone else who doesn't get on the same bandwagon. Idiots, all of 'em! Just got an email a little while ago from a woman who's daughter-in-law (a special ed teacher) had lost her job. Budget cutback. Big Republican family. And they see NO connection between the fact that the Republicans control Texas and the fact that the teacher lost her job.

[Badfish]

3. In a democracy..

we get the government we deserve.

[Bandit]

6. If only we were a Democracy..

America gets the Government that Money Buys.... Plain and Simple..

[Badfish]

9. I don't understand.

We get to vote..

How did money buy your vote ?

How did they make you cast a vote for the person they want ?

I have heard this before , how did they make you cast a vote in the primaries and general ?

[Arugula Latte]

10. Do you honestly have no understanding of how money influences policy?

Lobbyists write the legislation they have paid for with their big $$$. Politicians are their puppets. Corporations pull the strings, always.

Please get a clue.

[Badfish]

16. You are talking about buying policy , which is easy.

The issue is democracy , not policy.

How does the PTB buy the election ?

[Hannah Bell]

20. policy has nothing to do with democracy? democracy is about which

face funded by the corporate oligarchy we "vote" for?

[Bandit]

15. Did you vote for Obama, and if so did you get what you voted for?

:shrug: I did not get what I voted for. I voted for a Democrat...

[Badfish]

17. I voted for Obama , and am happy with him.

[Hannah Bell]

21. sure you did.

[Bandit]

22. Did you vote for anyone that wasn't a multi-millionaire?

:shrug: I know some people are naive, but??????????

[Hannah Bell]

19. lol. yeah, that's the ticket. we "get to" vote. whee!

[LanternWaste]

11. When we get a democracy, please let us know...

When we get a democracy, please let us know...

Otherwise, it's just another bumper sticker. :shrug:

[RedCloud]

5. State to be renamed "Tex-ass"

[47of74]

14. [phone]

[lpbk2713]

7. I would like to express my thanks to Texas.

... for taking some of the heat off us Floridians. :sarcasm:

[w8liftinglady]

23. lol....well,I just got home from work. saw some of the subjects of this study firsthand

we have nothing to be proud of here.

Nothing.

[tpsbmam]

12. Well done! K&R nt

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Congrats.

[bluestate10]

24. Red State Race To The Bottom. nt.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. Molly Ivins used to say "Thank God for Mississippi"

Now we can't even say that, because we are 50th in a lot of categories instead of 49th.

:cry:

[w8liftinglady]

29. No kidding... and my neighbors will turn their heads on the way to church

While these are the realities of our state.

My editor is a really brave guy to write some of the things he writes and publish articles like this.
it isn't the socially-acceptable meme.

[calimary]

27. New response to all those smug little darlings who say "Don't mess with Texas!"

Don't have to! You guys are taking care of that, yourselves.

[benld74]

28. Like I said, EVERYTHING W has EVER touched,,,,