Texas is already on its way to a clean energy future.

With $46 billion invested across Texas, tens of thousands of jobs created, and by far the most installed capacity in the country, the direct financial impact of the Texas wind energy industry is impossible to overlook. The steady growth of wind in Texas has meant substantial tax contributions, often directed towards schools, libraries, hospitals, roads, and other local projects.

The new economic reality means higher education—whether it’s a technical credential, an Associate’s degree, or a Bachelor’s degree—is essential to earning a good job. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show Americans with college degrees accounted for all the net new jobs created over the last decade.

A better-educated population could result in smarter decision-making at every level of society, which could lead to faster progress in solving our most difficult, collective challenges.

Gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift pay for nearly 40 million workers— 26.6% of the U.S. workforce.

Two-thirds (67.3%) of the working poor in America would receive a pay increase if the minimum wage were raised to $15 by 2025.

A $15 minimum wage would begin to reverse decades of growing pay inequality between the lowest-paid workers and the middle class.

If every major industrialized nation on Earth can make health care a right, provide universal coverage to all, achieve far better health outcomes in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality, while spending far less per capita than we do, it is absurd to suggest the United States of America, the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, cannot do the same.

While the rest of the developed world has continued to improve their schools and student learning, America’s public education system has changed little since the 1970s. 

Let’s make public education great again.

Texas is home to almost 5 million immigrants - 2.3 million women, 2.3 million men, and 319,331 children - which is just over 17% of all people living in the state.

1.6 million undocumented immigrants live in Texas. 64% of undocumented immigrants in Texas have been living in the U.S. for 10+ years. 22% have been living in the U.S. for 20+ years.

It's time to pass the DREAM

If women earned equal pay for equal work, the poverty rates for both working women and single mothers would be halved, and over 25 million children would benefit.

The wage gap deprives employed women in the U.S. of $900 billion each year, rightfully earned money that could be put back into our economy through spending on goods and services, education, homeownership, and more.

You name the issue and it has a link back to political decisions made by elected officials who are indebted for contributions by a small group of wealthy special interests.

Everyone knows there is something wrong and that the system is broken but they think there is nothing we can do.