We envision a Texas where people of all backgrounds can fulfill their potential and contribute to our community.
Unfortunately, too many Texans can’t access the conditions they need to thrive — good health care, education, and jobs.
One of the most effective ways to make sure every Texan has access to these conditions is to strengthen public policy. And that’s where we focus our work: We strengthen public policy to expand opportunity and equity for every Texan.
While HB 3, the tax cut and school finance bill passed in 2019, added a needed $6 billion to the school finance system, the work of ensuring all districts have
Operation Lone Star (OLS) is neither efficient nor effective public policy. Continuing to fund OLS hurts all Texans, white, black, and brown, by wasting $4 billion on failed deterrence policies
Every Texan believes that maintaining and improving access to health care, quality preK-12 schools and affordable college; improving housing affordability; and providing other essential social services should take priority for
Every Texan strongly supports the proposed rule to correct the “family glitch,” created by a 2013 misreading of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That misreading erected a barrier to affordable
While HB 3, the tax cut and school finance bill passed in 2019, added a needed $6 billion to the school finance system, the work of ensuring all districts have
The 60x30TX plan was launched in 2015 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to ensure that Texas will have a globally competitive workforce by 2030. The strategic plan
Every Texan rejects the premise that any child could be a burden to our state because all children deserve an education regardless of their place of birth. Empowered with a
The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Fiscal Recovery funds are intended to respond to COVID-19 health needs or the pandemic’s negative economic impacts, provide premium pay and other support for
View a PDF version of these comments here. Samantha DeshommesChief, Regulatory Coordinator Division Office of Policy and Strategy U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security Re: Comment in Response to the
As an organization working to improve all Texans’ access to health care, education, and financial security, Every Texan is testifying on House Bill 145, rather than in support of it.
Every Texan opposes SB 1, because it puts tax cuts before kids by accelerating the costly elimination of the Tier I M&O property tax rate that was put in place
According to the Trevor Project, “at least one LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13-24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds in the U.S.” In 2019 I attended the funeral of
