Jaime Puente oversees Every Texan’s work on education, workforce development and job quality. Before joining Every Texan, Jaime served three sessions as Legislative Director for two members of the Texas House of Representatives, Dr. Alma Allen and Rep. Ann Johnson. He also served for one review cycle at the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission where he worked on the reports for the Department of Licensing and Regulation as well as the Commission on Jail Standards. Jaime, a proud Houstonian, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History from the University of Houston-Downtown and a Master of Arts degree at the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. His Master’s thesis used the history of Juarez Lincoln University in Austin, Texas, to discuss the contested implementation of War on Poverty programs established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
Texas’ SB 4 Betrays American Values Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and the Texas Legislature’s dangerously unconstitutional SB 4 have turned the idyllic beauty
Read the full Texas report as a PDF In partnership with the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI), Every Texan released a new analysis demonstrating asylum seekers
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity Jaime Puente was interviewed by The Texas Observer on a reworked HB 1, which includes some concessions to try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDQhwJeSrU View the full testimony as a PDF here During Governor Abbott’s eight years in office, he has called for (and this committee has approved)
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity, Jaime Puente, testifies in strong opposition to HB 6 which would give another $1.5 billion to construction of a border
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity Jaime Puente was interviewed by The Texas Observer on the Senate’s passage of SB 1, a voucher proposal that
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity, Jaime Puente, testifies against the public education voucher program in front of the Senate Committee on education during the 3rd
With the help of Texas’ most powerful elected officials, out-of-state billionaires refuse to take no for an answer and continue to put the screws on
View this testimony as a PDF here Over the last two years, Texas libraries and librarians – like their counterparts in other states – have
View this as a PDF here. This session, Texas can expand access to economic opportunity and enhance safety across our 683.5 thousand miles of state
