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Medicare and Medicaid spend close to $61.8 billion a year on medical treatment for obese patients. In the state of Texas 6.1% of the total population is considered obese, 6.8% is the Medicare population, and 11.8% is the Medicaid population (Finkelstein, Fiebelkorn, & Wang, 2004). Based off of the numbers above it is safe to say that obesity exhausts majority of the

where people search their platform. But I think it is more than the one’s platform. After reading many articles, it was determined that there is no fixed cost for running for office in Texas. According to data provided in the The Texas Tribune, the amount of money spends by the person running for office in the Texas ranged from $0 to more than $1million dollars. To determine how much a candidate spends per vote, there are three different variables and they are: 1 how much a candidate fundraises, how

outlook on life, and will help withstand the hardships of life, but what happens when education get cuts down? Are today student’s being cheated out of best education possible to balance the budget? Education has been an important concern for Texas for very long

for the office in Texas. First, we need to decide which party to run for between the House of the Representative or Senate. According to the chart that was provided for the candidates spend in 2016, the average cost for the Senate is about a dollar per vote. Whereas the average cost for the House of the Representative start around three dollars per vote and the price goes up significantly. Which concludes that running as House of the Representative costs more than the Senate in Texas. In order to raise

state of Texas and New Jersey, this law has been put in place for their drivers who commit a traffic ticket offence. The Driver Responsibility Program, created in 2003, requires drivers to pay annual surcharges on top of the fines and legal fees attached to traffic violations, such as driving without insurance or while intoxicated. These surcharges keep people from registering their car, getting their license and being legal on the road. This law have more illegal drivers on the Texas roads. Drivers

Control in Texas Texas is a small government state that has many politicians who have most control on the state’s legislative orders and any kind of concern in the state of Texas; however, there are too many interest groups who can influence on them. So basically, the governor has more control than anybody else in the state. According to the articles plastic bags have been a big disaster to nature impacting on animals, trees and all other kinds of plants. However, the government of Texas tried and

Weeks after North Carolina’s lawmakers failed to repeal their own state’s controversial bathroom law, a similar bill was introduced in the Texas Senate on Thursday, requiring the use of bathrooms in public schools, public universities, and government facilities according to biological sex. Senate Bill 6, also known as the Texas Privacy Act, would override city ordinances that allow individuals to use restrooms according to gender identity, and also bars cities from requiring private businesses to

Texas Elections When it is around time for elections, signs around the neighborhood will start appearing to tell people to vote for them. This occurs mainly around the time of the primaries. The primaries occur every even year and they exist to elect state positions. Meaning who represents someone in the districts may change drastically or stay about the same. In simplest terms, the primary election exists to narrow down the amount of people running in the general election. Sometimes if the results

In Texas, there were more than 30,000 children in foster care on any given day in 2015. 23% of which were in Dallas and surrounding counties, more than any other region in Texas (DFPS). These children are victims of incredible abuse and neglect in their own homes, until the state intervenes and places them into the foster care system. Unfortunately, these children’s situations do not improve, but instead go from bad to worse. This was the case for Jean, a former foster care child who went from an

Sapkota 2 Mahesh Sapkota Professor Sharifian GOVT 2306-73432 April 11, 2018 Migration is not a crime An election is a significant factor for a candidate to determining their achievement. It's like a final exam to them, one with most vote passes the exam. Their result is determined by a platform that they or their party stand, who supports them, how effectively their slogan etcetera. 1 “The amount a candidate spends per vote is based on three variables: 2 how much a candidate fundraises, how much