Texas Ranks Under Bush:

1st in Children without Health Insurance %...
1st in Toxic Air Releases...
1st in Smog Days (Houston)...
1st in poorest counties(3)...
3rd in Hunger %...
5th in Highest Teen Birth Rate...
45th in Mothers Receiving Pre-Natal Care...
46th in Public Libraries and Branches...
46th in High School Completion Rate...
46th in Water Resources Protection...
47th in Delivery of Social Services...
48th in Literacy...
48th in Per Capita Funding for Public Health...
48 in Best Place to Raise Children...
48th in Spending for Parks and Recreation...
48th in Spending for the Arts...
49th in Spending for the Environment...
50th in Teachers' Salaries plus Benefits...

Texas Rankings Under Bush:
Good Enough for You?

National Ranking Among 50 States

The Education Governor

Teacher salaries at beginning of 1st term 36 (1)

Teacher salaries at beginning of 2nd term 38 (1)

% Change in Average Salaries 1987-97 constant $ -5.4%

Teacher salaries plus benefits 50 (1)

High school completion rate 46 (2)

Bush Family Values

Highest number of children living in poverty 2 (3)

Highest number of children without health insurance 2 (3)

Highest % of children without health insurance 1 (3)

Highest % of poor working parents without insurance 1 (3)

Highest % of population without health insurance 2 (3)

Highest Teen Birth Rate 5 (4)

Per capita funding for public health 48 (4)

Delivery of social services 47 (4)

Mothers receiving prenatal care 45 (9)

Teen smoking - down nationally, flat in Texas (5)

Teen drug use - down nationally, up in Texas (5)

Pollution

Pollution released by manufacturing plants 1 (6)

Pollution by industrial plants in violation of Clean Air Act 1 (6)

Greenhouse gas emissions 1 (6)

Quality of Life

Spending for parks and recreation 48 (7)

Spending for the arts 48 (7)

Public libraries and branches 46 (8)

Spending for the environment 49 (7)

Best place to raise children 48 (9)

Sources:

(1) National Education Agency,

(2) U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Research and Development

(3) U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Populations Trends

(4) U.S. Dept Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics

(5)1998 Texas School Survey of Substance Use Among Students: Grades 7-12, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse

(6) U.S. EPA, Office of Pollution and Prevention

(7) Texas Observer

(8) Statistical Rankings by State

(9) Children's Rights Council

Oh yeah.....I bet all Texans just luuuuuuuuv Dubya!

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