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Enrolment paperwork after the pandemic coverage unwinding accounts for part of the rise; eligibility rules set in Austin account for part."},{"category":"Abortion","label":"Infant deaths after the 2021 six-week ban","value":"infant deaths rose 12.9% in the following year","comparison":"against a 1.8% rise in the rest of the United States","rank":null,"standing":"bottom","sourceName":"JAMA Pediatrics (peer-reviewed)","sourceUrl":"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2821508","year":"2024 study, 2021–22 data","caveat":"A single-state time-series comparison, not a randomised finding. The authors attribute much of the rise to congenital anomalies diagnosed too late to act on under the ban. This concerns the 2021 law (SB 8 of the 87th), not any bill on this quiz."},{"category":"Energy & Environment","label":"What households pay for electricity","value":"16.11¢ per kWh — up about 40% since 2020","comparison":"from 11.50¢ in 2020; delivered rates are running 14–19¢ in 2026, and some monthly bills have reached $600–$800","rank":null,"standing":"bottom","sourceName":"ElectricityPlans, Texas rate trends","sourceUrl":"https://electricityplans.com/texas-electricity-trends/","year":"2020–2026","caveat":"This increase largely predates the data centre build-out. Natural gas prices, transmission construction, population growth and extreme weather all move retail rates. Treat it as what has happened to bills, not as a data centre effect."},{"category":"Energy & Environment","label":"What data centres are forecast to draw","value":"≈78 GW of data-centre demand projected by 2030","comparison":"against an all-time grid peak of 85.5 GW for the whole of Texas (Aug 2023). 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Who pays for the transmission it needs is the live question, and is what SB 6 and the 2026 PUC actions are about."},{"category":"Immigration","label":"Spending on Operation Lone Star","value":"$11 billion since 2021","comparison":"border security spending went from $800 million in 2018–19 to $6.6 billion in 2024–25; proposed appropriations would take the running total to roughly $18 billion","rank":null,"standing":"neutral","sourceName":"Dallas Morning News; Texas Tribune","sourceUrl":"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/texas-border-security-spending-operation-lone-star/","year":"2021–2026","caveat":"Deliberately marked neutral. It has funded roughly 45 miles of state-built barrier, over 100 miles of razor wire and busing more than 119,000 people to other cities. Whether that is money well spent is the argument, not a fact this page can settle. Abbott has asked the federal government to reimburse it."},{"category":"Elections & Voting","label":"Voter turnout","value":"56.6% of eligible voters in 2024","comparison":"behind every state except Hawaii, Oklahoma, Arkansas and West Virginia","rank":"5th lowest of 50 states","standing":"bottom","sourceName":"Ballotpedia turnout analysis; U.S. Census Bureau","sourceUrl":"https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election","year":"2024","caveat":"Rank depends on the denominator: measured against voting-age citizens rather than eligible voters, Census estimates put Texas 2nd lowest at 57.9%. Turnout also tracks how competitive a state is thought to be, not registration law alone."},{"category":"Criminal Justice","label":"Incarceration rate","value":"751 per 100,000 people","comparison":"counting prisons, jails, immigration detention and juvenile facilities; Mississippi is highest, Massachusetts lowest at 96 per 100,000 in prison","rank":"6th highest of 50 states","standing":"bottom","sourceName":"Prison Policy Initiative; USAFacts","sourceUrl":"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html","year":"2023–25","caveat":"Down 18% over the past decade, so the trend runs the other way from the level. Rates vary a lot by which facility types a source counts."},{"category":"Business & Labor","label":"Job growth","value":"132,500 jobs added in 2025 — more than any other state","comparison":"real GDP grew 4.8% in 2024, above the national rate; at $2.9 trillion Texas would be the world’s 8th largest economy on its own","rank":"1st of 50 states for jobs added","standing":"top","sourceName":"Dallas Fed; Bureau of Labor Statistics via Visual Capitalist","sourceUrl":"https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-job-growth-in-every-u-s-state-2025/","year":"2024–25","caveat":"First place is in absolute jobs, which partly reflects being the second most populous state. By growth RATE Missouri led 2025 at +1.7%. Job counts also say nothing about pay: Texas has no state minimum wage above the federal $7.25."},{"category":"Taxes & Spending","label":"Property tax burden","value":"1.245% effective rate — a median bill of $4,108","comparison":"against a national average rate of 0.888% and a national median bill of $3,211 — and Texas homes are worth less on average ($313,200 vs $360,600)","rank":"9th highest of 50 states","standing":"bottom","sourceName":"ATTOM property tax analysis, via Fox 4","sourceUrl":"https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-ranks-9th-highest-us-property-tax-rates-according-new-study","year":"2025","caveat":"This is the direct trade-off for having no state income tax: schools, cities and counties are funded from local property levies instead. Whether that is the better deal depends on your income and whether you own. Rates also vary widely by county."},{"category":"Housing","label":"Renters spending too much on rent","value":"47.7% of renters are cost-burdened","comparison":"of 4.1 million renter households; 23.6% are severely burdened, paying over half their income in rent. Median rent rose 9.1% after inflation while median household income rose 3.1%, to $78,476.","rank":null,"standing":"bottom","sourceName":"U.S. Census / American Community Survey, via Texas Tribune","sourceUrl":"https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/29/texas-census-housing-incomes/","year":"2024–25","caveat":"The burden is concentrated: about 90% of renters earning under $30,000 are cost-burdened, against a far lower share of higher earners, so a statewide average understates how hard it lands at the bottom. Rents are also set by local markets and land supply, not by state law alone."},{"category":"Housing","label":"How much housing is being built","value":"74,350 new residential permits in 2025 — more than any state","comparison":"Houston ranked 1st and Dallas 2nd among all U.S. cities for new permits, with San Antonio 8th and Austin 9th","rank":"1st of 50 states","standing":"top","sourceName":"Census building permits, via Wealth Enhancement / Consumer Affairs","sourceUrl":"https://www.wealthenhancement.com/blog/what-states-are-building-most-new-houses-2025","year":"2025","caveat":"Permit volume fell about 9% from the previous year. First place is an absolute count, which partly reflects size and population growth. Note the tension with the figure above: leading the country in construction has not stopped affordability worsening faster here than nationally."},{"category":"Technology & Privacy","label":"Texans without a broadband connection","value":"more than 9 million people","comparison":"either because the infrastructure does not reach them or because they are not subscribed; four of the five least-connected cities in the country are in Texas","rank":null,"standing":"bottom","sourceName":"Texas Consumer Association; National Digital Inclusion Alliance","sourceUrl":"https://www.texasconsumer.org/news-press/millions-of-texans-still-dont-have-broadband-access-some-lawmakers-are-trying-to-change-that","year":"2025 (city ranking 2019)","caveat":"The 9 million figure combines two different problems — no service available, and service available but unaffordable — which need different fixes. The least-connected-cities ranking is from a 2019 analysis and may have moved since."},{"category":"Technology & Privacy","label":"Data privacy enforcement","value":"$1.375 billion recovered from Google","comparison":"the largest state privacy recovery against Google by any attorney general, plus $1.4 billion from Meta over facial-recognition data in 2024","rank":"largest in the nation","standing":"top","sourceName":"Office of the Texas Attorney General","sourceUrl":"https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-historic-1375-billion-settlement-google-related-texans-data","year":"2024–25","caveat":"Secured by Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is a candidate in one of the three races here. Settlement size is not the same as consumer benefit — how much reaches Texans, versus the state treasury and outside counsel, is a separate question this figure does not answer."},{"category":"Courts & Civil Law","label":"Who pays for a lawyer when you cannot afford one","value":"the state covers about 13% of the cost","comparison":"counties pay the rest. In 2013 counties spent $189.7 million against the state’s $27.4 million — 14 cents from the state for every county dollar.","rank":null,"standing":"neutral","sourceName":"Texas Indigent Defense Commission; Legislative Budget Board","sourceUrl":"https://www.tidc.texas.gov/media/kajgysgo/tidc_annual_report_fy20.pdf","year":"FY2020 (comparison 2013)","caveat":"Marked neutral because it describes who bears a cost, not a ranking — whether the state or the county should fund the right to counsel is the argument. Note the dating: the 13% share is FY2020 and the dollar comparison is 2013, so both may have moved. The 13% is state grants offsetting county spending, not a share of total system cost."},{"category":"Courts & Civil Law","label":"Exonerations","value":"more than 470 since 1989 — most of any state","comparison":"26 in 2024 alone, ahead of Illinois on 20. Texas has also exonerated 18 people from death row, second only to Florida.","rank":"1st of 50 states","standing":"neutral","sourceName":"National Registry of Exonerations","sourceUrl":"https://exonerationregistry.org/exonerations-county","year":"1989–2025","caveat":"Reads two opposite ways and the number cannot tell you which: it may mean more wrongful convictions, or better machinery for catching them. Both are partly true here. 17 of the 26 exonerations in 2024 trace to misconduct by a single Houston narcotics officer. Texas has also executed more people than any state since 1976."},{"category":"Guns","label":"Firearm death rate","value":"13.9 deaths per 100,000 people","comparison":"against 28.0 in Mississippi (highest) and 3.7 in Hawaii (lowest)","rank":"26th of 50 states","standing":"middle","sourceName":"Violence Policy Center, from CDC data","sourceUrl":"https://vpc.org/state-firearm-death-rates-ranked-by-rate-2024/","year":"2024","caveat":"Texas has the highest raw count of firearm deaths of any state, which mostly reflects being the second most populous. 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They are not proof that any one vote, bill or official caused them — rankings move on population growth, local property values, federal rules and the economy as well as state law. What is on the record is the outcome, the vote, and who held office. 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All three Democratic candidates sit in the Texas House, which is the reason the comparison works at all — they voted on the same bills you are being asked about, so their records can be checked against yours vote for vote. 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