Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Also, I do not disagree with your statistics, Mookie, but they really don't tell the whole story. First, teen age pregnancies--what role does the govt have in this? A woman has the right to do as she will with her body And we cannot legislate morality or common sense.

It's a symptom of the problem. Poorer and lower educated people have more babies and have them younger than higher educated and richer people.

So, Texas ranks last in the nation for adults with a high school degree? Wow, that's sad (definitely not being sarcastic here, that really is bad). But on the other hand:

I was going off of this article, which I will grant you was from 2010, so things may have changed. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-ed...hool-diplomas/

And it also mentions that a lot of people without those degrees are immigrants to the state (from other U.S. states and Mexico) so it may not be as much of an indicator of the quality of the Texas education system. But I was just reading an article the other day that says the OECD just completed a study that found that American children are now more likely to achieve the same or a lower level of schooling than their parents. Only one in five will achieve a higher educational level than their parents. The U.S. is the only major developed economy in the world where this is the case. So when you take those two facts together, it's a worrying trend for Texas.

Here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20154358