Essay On Texas Population Growth

Texas has grown rapidly in the past few decades. The state of Texas has attracted people from everywhere because of the profound high-tech movement, availability of several natural resources, and other numerable sources. The finding of oil and its’ reasonable prices in Texas drove a lot of people into the state. “From 1970 to 1980, as oil prices spiraled upward and people flocked to Texas, its population grew by 2.71 percent per year, while the nation’s increased at a 1.14 percent pace” (Petersen and Assanie). Texas leads in population growth, right after Utah, surpassing the total growth rates of nation as whole. People have moved to the state of Texas for several reasons, again because of the abundance amounts of development in high-tech areas and natural resources but also because of more work opportunities being created everyday and lots of land. It is evident that, “states and a …show more content…
“As Texas’ rapid growth continues to be fueled by an increase in the Hispanic population and black Texans are likely to keep lagging socioeconomically behind white, leading to a poorer and less competitive state, according to a new book by a leading expert on Texas demographics” (MacLaggan). As the population grows, the disparities increase as well. Another thing the government should focus on is how to be prepared for the needs of the lower economic status portion of the growing population. Texas aims to reduce the disparities and the socioeconomic gaps. As discussed in the Unit I Forum, we explored how the Robin Hood plan affects different districts over Texas, some districts are well off and some are poor and need the money to be transferred from another wealthy school district. Texas is attempting to even out the school districts by taking money out of well off school districts and redistributing it among school districts that are categorized as