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so Texan kids are getting rickrolled
Nice job RickAUSTIN — Texas brags about being the No. 1 rated state for business, but the drop-off is considerable when assessing the well-being of children.
Texas ranks No. 34 in the overall well-being for children, according to a state-by-state study released today by the 2010 Kids Count Data Book.
Texas has the third highest teen birth rate in the country and ranks 43rd in child poverty. The number of Texas children living in poverty grew by nearly a quarter million between 2000-2008.
“What is the point of being the best place in the country to do business if the wealth that we are attracting and generating in this state is not accruing to the benefit of the children?” asked state Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, chairman of the House Technology, Economic Development and Workforce Committee.
Strama and Texas KIDS COUNT Director Frances Deviney discussed the new report which requires more attention and investment, they said, to ensure the state's ongoing vitality.
An estimated budget shortfall as high as $18 billion will likely require steep cuts in programs and services next year because state leaders have ruled out tax increases.
“Kids can't afford the kinds of cuts that they are talking about. We can't get a return on investments that we don't make,” Deviney said.
The annual survey is sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Findings of the study focus on 2008 and do not reflect the recession that has caused unemployment to increase significantly since then.
so Texan kids are getting rickrolled
White kids do OK, it's probably browns and blacks that are worst off.
They are mostly illegals so they deserve to suffer..
Are you saying parents in Texas don't give a about their own children?
I'm no fan of Rick Perry, but this thread is full of fail.
So, what I'm picking up from the article is...Rick Perry is good for business, Texas parents are bad for kids. OKAY YOUZ GUYS!
I guess I don't see the correlation between business and welfare of children.
Here are the indicators used to develop the rankings. Which of these are Rick Perry responsible for?
Child Death Rate (deaths per 100,000 children ages 1–14)
Infant Mortality Rate (deaths per 1,000 live births)
Percent Low–Birthweight Babies
Percent of Children in Poverty (income below $21,834 for a family of two adults and two children in 2008)
Percent of Children in Single-Parent Families
Percent of Children Living in Families Where No Parent Has Full–Time, Year–Round Employment
Percent of Teens Not Attending School and Not Working (ages 16–19)
Percent of Teens Not in School and Not High School Graduates (ages 16–19)
Teen Birth Rate (births per 1,000 females ages 15–19)
Teen Death Rate (deaths per 100,000 teens ages 15–19)
no one likes mexicans. they are the worst.
Well, I did hear from someone once that Rick Perry eats babies, so that might be it.
So the programs are failing to help Texas children, therefore we cannot afford to cut funding to the programs that are failing to help the children?
There are few problems that more money for children in Texas wouldn't fix..including childhood poverty, education, health and nutrition...etc...etc...but Texas would rather give the richers more tax breaks than care for future Texans...
stop it, just stop it before someone hurts themselves laughing.
It's hardly Texas state Government's fault that they keep sticking s in pussies unprotected and making babies.
And yes, we DO have a cultural mix that tends to make us not do well in that category.
..blame the children...nice...
Exactly. Nothing cures ineffective government spending better than more government spending.
I take it you don't empathize with those of us who raw-dog it?
Not the children, the adults.
The CHILDREN? I'm blaming the little maschismo mother ers that refuse to wear a rubber and the dumb es that them anyway.
Thats what the teen pregnancy numbers boil down to in Texas.
....stfu.... until you can prove you know diddly about the cycle of poverty you should stop sounding like a wing-nut over-reactionary...
prove me wrong wing-nut.
Babies don't come from the ing stork.
Bareback ing=baby=little machismo man splitting=mamacita getting Federal $$$$ and LoneStar card for making babies= bareback ing= more babies=cycle of poverty
Chronic Poverty = PTSD/Chronic Stress syndrome/ADHD/ADD = Drug Addiction/Alcoholism/Learned helplessness = feeling of inadequacy in girls/emotional or physical negligence or abuse at home/teen status = teen pregenancy = Circle of Poverty.
/thread.
just pull out. problem solved.
Don't produce offspring unless you can afford them.
Problem solved.
If Rick can afford his kids, nice job Rick.
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