The ability to offer lower taxes and property tax reductions to businesses in Texas is paid for by massive cuts to the education and health budgets.

Ie the rich can stay rich and the poor can stay poor and uneducated, with little chance to better themselves. The state of Texas basically just wants a cheap labour force.

Texas ranks near the bottom or at the bottom in per capita health care and education funding and has among the highest rates of child poverty, infectious disease, and workplace fatalities.

But no matter, they have always a good supply of illegal immigrants to work for peanuts.

.. so if you want to better yourself from a poor background in Texas.... Move state.