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Howdy, Texas! 🤠 This November, TX Prop 3, the ‘Billionaire Special Treatment Act’ is on the ballot. It’s not about party—it’s about EVERY Texan. When billionaires get tax breaks, our costs rise—from our property taxes to sales taxes on gas and groceries. ⛽🛍️

SB 6 would waste $1.5 BILLION on the border wall, bringing TX dangerously close to the spending cap. Shannon Halbrook: "we should make sure enough is left over to deal with natural disasters or other unexpected needs during the next two years.” texastribune.org/2023/11/02/tex…

1) Data: in states with universal eligibility for vouchers, about 70% of voucher-users were never in a public school. Combine that with Texas's heavy reliance on local property taxes to fund public #txed, and a 1% "take-up" rate, and here's what could happen. 🧵 #txlege

Thank you Josh Equity Center for illuminating us with your finance knowledge - it would take $15B over two years to get back to 2019 buying power. HB 1 provides only $4B to the basic allotment. This is not a win for school districts. #txed #txlege

More accurate recap of TX public #txed funding: 1) Let local property taxes & federal aid make up for years when #txlege lets Basic Allotment lose ground to inflation 2) "Buy down" property taxes without actually increasing state taxes 3) Wait for next recession to undo 2)

Students cannot reach their full potential until we fully fund schools. Yet, the #txlege is debating HB1 which fails to sufficiently increase base level funding AND creates a voucher program 🤮. See our update analysis of how much your district would lose everytexan.org/special-sessio…

“If HB 1 were to pass as proposed, and 1% of students in VanDeaver’s school districts were awarded vouchers, his school districts would lose a combined $3.5 million, as Texas schools are funded per student attendance." #txlege texastribune.org/2023/11/17/tex…

The people Buckley is trying to appeal to right now - who have trouble getting across town and being present in their kids education - will not be helped by vouchers because those are the kids private schools will refuse to admit. #txlege

BREAKING: Texans with the lowest incomes pay more of their income in taxes than Californians Our analysis of new ITEP data reveals that many Texas families pay a larger portion of their income in taxes than similar families in California everytexan.org/2024/01/09/lat…

Ep. 4 of Texas Talks out now! Guest: Dick Lavine, Senior Fiscal Analyst at Every Texan Full Episode: Apple: tinyurl.com/5m4xwv45 Spotify: tinyurl.com/yc7au4xz YouTube: tinyurl.com/2zcsyfmx Follow Dick on X Dick Lavine #txlege #propertytax #schoolfinance Brad Swail

UT Austin employees’ salaries have lost purchasing power- lagging behind inflation. Kaitlan Wong and I looked at positions occupied by 50 or more employees and their median salaries 👇#HigherEducation #higheredworkforce TSEU #longhorns datawrapper.de/_/Vozfs/

Texas workers are worth a living wage and adequate support. Despite historically high employment, our care, service, and safety workers face persistent challenges in accessing prosperity. Learn more in Part 3 of the State of Working Texans series: bit.ly/SOWT-3

HJR 4 and 6, the first proposals scheduled for the House Floor today, are handouts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy that will further lock working Texans out of pathways to prosperity. #txlege

We’re back for a new season of the Every Texan Talks podcast! Kicking off with the bear of all bills, we unpack all things TX budget with Ursula Parks, Shannon Halbrook, & EPISD Trustee Leah Hanany. Tune in and subscribe to cut through the noise with us👇🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/1665OU…

We'll be paying close attention to see if the #TxLege shares the same priorities as the Texans they represent. For a complete look at our work across Texas, visit our #peoplesbudget dashboard. peoplesbudget.everytexan.org/dashboard/

Follow the threads and watch our members’ work to prioritize Texans in our state budget. #peoplesbudget #txlege

What happened on #BudgetDay? Our People’s Budget initiative is a long-term, community effort the size of Texas. Did we get a #PeoplesBudget? Take a #txlege deep dive with our Director of Invest in Texas team, Shannon Halbrook. 👇 everytexan.org/2025/04/11/the…

The House passed #HB2. Though not perfect, there were several good parts. The SPED reforms are greatly needed and long overdue. Increasing the bilingual education weight for the first time since 1984 (one of my top priorities) is so greatly appreciated. #txlege #txed

As Brad Buckley lays out SB2, Every Texan is ready to share our (still preliminary) analysis of the cost of vouchers to ISDs even after the new funding from HB 2. This is not a complete list because the full runs were not released. #txlege

#HB105 - on today's Calendar - is Big Money walking back the #JETI deal made last session. Now they want lower wages, applied to fewer workers, and special treatment for fossil fuel electric generators and larger projects. Cost to #txed = $1.1 bil/biennium. #txlege #DealIsADeal