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Don't get your hopes up. Republicans have led Oklahoma since 2010 and for 2018 the state Legislature is looking at another huge budget deficit to try to do something about. Some Republicans want to keep on cutting funding for state government as the solution.
How much of Oklahoma’s revenue comes via the oil industry?
Any idea how the oil industry has been the last five years?
LOL. This is so aggressively stupid. People choose to be born to poor uneducated parents in areas with poor services and schools? Yeah, I could live a comfortable middle-class existence, but I’d rather live on this Alabama dirt farm and contract hookworms.
The highest poverty rates are in inner-cities, not in rural "dirt farm" areas. I posted a link to the data.
Reading comprehension? Do you understand that different states have extremely different welfare policies? If you don't, read your link, it has a comparison of California and Texas.
Which has a higher cost of living, and therefore a hugely over-represented percentage of the US welfare population?
Look at table in the link. Poverty rates are provided by state, TX - 17.2%, CA - 16.4, so not much difference.
However, the welfare policies are drastically different between those two states. Got it? Not a rocket science.
Both states have a high percentage of illegals. You don't have college educated people crossing the border in the middle of the night to come live here. You have poor uneducated people who rush to have anchor babies to get into our welfare programs.
United Nations Shocked at Poverty Level in Red State, Said it is the Worst in Developed Nation.
They weren't shocked at all. They formed their opinion before they ever got here. Coming here was just more cover for promoting anything negative about the USA. Their sole purpose is removing America as a road block to the socialist, one world order of their desire.
Someone should have sent those UN folks down to the Texas border to visit some of the colonias we have here..no electricity, no running water, no sewer, no services whatsoever with people living in third world conditions and homes.
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