A new study ranks Texas' tax structure the fifth most "regressive" among the states. That means state and local tax collectors take a much greater share of income from low- and middle-income families than from the wealthy. The report by...
Add this to the pile of problems facing the new health and human services honcho -- whoever Gov. Rick Perry selects -- after outgoing commissioner Albert Hawkins (right) leaves at the end of this month: Legal services lawyers for the...
Former state Medicaid program official Anne Dunkelberg, who served in the late Gov. Ann Richards' administration, has cast a gimlet eye on Senate leaders' Tuesday announcement that Medicaid needs $1 billion more in state "general revenue" than even the Senate...
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