Immigration Reality: Texas stiffs kids -- and culprit is lack of will, not immigration

Group: Texas stiffs kids -- and culprit is lack of will, not immigration | Trail Blazers Blog | dallasnews.com: "
'Inadequate state funding drives the state's poor outcomes for children -- immigrants do not,' says a press release from Texans Care for Children, trumpeting 'A Report on the Bottom Line: Conditions for Children and the Texas of Tomorrow.'

Texas "is not a poor state," with median household income of about $50,000 in 2009, placing us roughly in the middle of the pack. But Texas ranks near the bottom in child well-being, as measured by national groups ...
"... we found many factors can be linked to a state's positive or negative ranking for child well-being," it said. "Several issues within a state's control, like education, health care, and levels of investment in public structures, had significant links to child well-being, while the presence or absence of immigrant populations did not."

The bottom line of the group's Bottom Line report: a headline on page 6. "We are the only state to possess the means but not the will to better serve our people," "