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Space and flying cars in Texas: The future is now!

April 6, 2023

This is a preview of our Texas 2036 newsletter about making prudent investments in government performance. To receive this weekly highlight of our work, sign up here. This week’s newsletter peers over the horizon at the emerging, high-demand jobs that will power Texas’ future. Space, doing it bigger in Texas 🌌 The commercial space sector is already…

Teacher wages and projected growth: What to know

April 5, 2023

Texas 2036 recently looked at employment and wage projections with the Texas Workforce Commission’s recently released Occupational Projections for the next decade. These projections draw on data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program administered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here, we explore how this relates to teachers. Teachers with bachelor’s degrees…

Student readiness: Texas parents are worried

April 3, 2023

Texas 2036 and the George W. Bush Institute explore student career readiness and its impacts on Texas’ future prosperity in their report “The State of Readiness: Are Texas students prepared for life after high school?” Here is a preview of what the data says about Texas students and their worried parents (find parts I, II…

Healthy markets: Getting Texans the health care they need

March 31, 2023

This is a preview of our Texas 2036 newsletter about healthy markets and getting Texans the care they need. To receive this weekly highlight of our work, sign up here. For far too many Texans, health care has become unaffordable—to the point of being unobtainable. Here’s a look at our treatment plan, a diagnosis of what’s driving higher health care…

Student readiness: What assessments tell us

March 30, 2023

Texas 2036 and the George W. Bush Institute explore student career readiness and its impacts on Texas’ future prosperity in their report “The State of Readiness: Are Texas students prepared for life after high school?” Here is a preview about assessments (read part I and part II). What data tells us about student readiness  Texas…

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Bill would add incentives for promoting carbon capture

March 28, 2023

Texas 2036 Senior Policy Advisor Jeremy Mazur testified Monday in favor of efforts in the Legislature to provide further incentives in promoting carbon capture and underground storage and hydrogen energy as part of a larger strategy to expand energy options in the state. House Bill 1158 by state Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, would help…

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