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Where we rank: first in executions, last in the percentage of low-income children with health insurance--that much we knew. But how Texas compares with the rest of the country in a whole host of other areas may suprise you. It sure surprised us.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 836 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
This spring, Democratic state senator Eliot Shapleigh, of El Paso, distributed the second edition of "Texas on the Brink," a pamphlet detailing how the second-largest state compares with the other 49 in education, health, crime, and other measurable areas of public life. Shapleigh write s in the introduction that Texas must "make the necessary and critical investment" in public services and warns that "our state is at a crossroads." At least that crossroads is familiar territory: Shapleigh's portrayal of a state government that taxes and spends at a low level is hard to dispute, but it is not exactly new. It was as true fifty years ago, when Texas was a Democratic state and "a good business climate" was the mantra of state leaders,...

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