- It has the fourth-highest poverty rate of any state
- It tied with Mississippi last year for the highest percentage of workers in minimum-wage jobs
- It ranks first in adults without high school diplomas
- Twenty-six percent of Texans have no health insurance — the highest percentage of medically uninsured residents of any state
- It leads the nation in the percentage of children who lack medical insurance
- Texas has an inordinate number of employers who provide no insurance to their workers

there’s your whole republican platform right there