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Texas 2036 CEO Margaret Spellings Underscores the Importance of Higher Education at UTEP Centennial Lecture

February 19, 2020

Margaret Spellings, CEO of Texas 2036, visited The University of Texas at El Paso to deliver a Centennial Lecture on the topic “The Future of Higher Education” on Feb. 18, 2020, at the Undergraduate Learning Center. UTEP College of Education Dean Clifton Tanabe, Ph.D., joined Spellings, the former U.S. Secretary of Education and former president...

More Broadband Means More Opportunity in a More Modern Texas

February 12, 2020

Less than 100 years ago, too many rural Texas communities were economically isolated from the rest of the world. There were few paved roads connecting them to other towns, cities and markets. They often had to make do without electricity that was a fact of life in other places. State leaders took action to bring...

Debt Lessons from the States: Investing in Public Employees while Protecting Taxpayers

February 6, 2020

Thanks to balanced budget requirements and debt limits, state governments have less opportunity for debt overexposure than the federal government. However, pension obligations are a growing concern often overlooked by these customary ratios that measure a state’s long-term fiscal health. Texas 2036 has reviewed public pension standards and stability across the country to see how...

Poll results show Texans’ health care concerns

February 4, 2020

The Texas Lyceum — a 30-year old statewide non-profit focused on supporting Texas’ next generation of leaders — puts out a poll every year to ask Texans how they feel about key issues and sundry political topics of the day. The first results from the 2020 poll hit last week. Most of it focused on presidential...

Texas’ future depends on its financial foundation

January 30, 2020

Texas has a hard-earned reputation of being a low-tax state — there’s no state income tax here, and Texans voted overwhelmingly just two months ago to make it even harder to create one. Texans pay a lot on property taxes though, a perpetual issue at the legislature— with homeowners worrying that they are being priced out of their homes...

Success Depends on Youth Health

January 24, 2020

Thanks to The Cooper Institute for the opportunity to talk about the importance of youth health in a special insert in the Dallas Business Journal. We have Texas-sized health challenges (obesity and a lack of vegetables and physical activity) looming that will require creative and comprehensive thinking to overcome them. Read More

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