Senators File A Bill To Update the Tax Code
Is your phone loaded up with apps that you once thought would be useful, but now just take up space on your screen? Well, the State of Texas has a
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January 28, 2013
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EITC Boosts Economy and Working Families
Today is EITC Awareness Day. The economic impact on the Texas economy and working families is huge. Coinciding with the onset of tax season, EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) Day is
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January 25, 2013
New Tool Highlights What Texas Families Must Earn to Meet Basic Needs
Today we released a new data tool that finds that what a two-parent household with two children in Texas must earn to cover basic expenses like affordable housing, food, child
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January 24, 2013
Proposed SB 1 Does Nothing To Restore Public Education
Today, I testified at the first Senate Finance Committee hearing of the session. Below is a summary of what I shared with committee members: Last session, $5.3 billion was cut
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January 23, 2013
SB 1 Is 11% Below What’s Needed for a Better Texas
Today, the Senate Finance committee kicked off public hearings on Senate Bill 1, the proposed state budget for 2014 and 2015. At $89 billion in General Revenue, the Senate’s starting
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January 23, 2013
A Fighting Chance: Sarah and Matt
Sarah and Matt are living paycheck-to-paycheck in Austin, Texas. When their third child Cooper, now 3, was born with dislocated hips and crisscrossed legs, he needed constant care, several surgeries,
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January 21, 2013
A Fighting Chance: Alyssa and Anthony
Alyssa and Anthony are both working full-time in Austin, Texas, but their jobs do not pay them enough to cover their expenses. They live in a small duplex with their
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January 21, 2013
A Fighting Chance: Alexis and Richard
Alexis and Richard were students at Texas Tech University when they found out they were going to have a baby. Their son, however, would be born with no kidney function
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January 21, 2013
A Fighting Chance: Delores
It took Delores a long time to pull herself out of poverty. As a single mother of five children in Bryan, Texas, she couldn’t find a job and was barely
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January 21, 2013
A Fighting Chance: Shamekia and James
Shamekia and James live in Austin, Texas. As carpenter and welder by trade, James was working full-time and earning plenty of money to provide for his five children when he
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January 21, 2013
OPED–The Governor’s Big Family
In our weekly Austin American-Statesman column, our executive director F. Scott McCown lays out why the proposed constitutional limit on spending would handcuff our future investments – By F. Scott
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January 20, 2013
2013 Lege–Women’s Health
In 2011, family planning funding in Texas took a significant hit. Clinics across the state lost a total of $73 million in state funding for contraception, cancer screenings, and other
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January 18, 2013