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Conservative Texas Budget: $234.1 Billion (+8%) House Budget: $246.5 Billion (+13.8%) Senate Budget: $236.0 Billion (+9%) The table provide an apples...
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AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Toward Strengthening Civic Education in Texas. “It has been said that ‘the philo...
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