<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>   The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is ranked as follows:         50th in spending for teachers' salaries         49th in spending on the environment         48th in per-capita funding for public health         47th in delivery of social services         42nd in child-support collections         41st in per-capita spending on public education and ...         5th in percentage of population living in poverty         1st in air and water pollution         1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance         1st in percentage of children without health insurance         1st in executions (an average of 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as         governor)         !The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is ranked as follows:         50th in spending for teachers' salaries         49th in spending on the environment         48th in per-capita funding for public health         47th in delivery of social services         42nd in child-support collections         41st in per-capita spending on public education and ...         5th in percentage of population living in poverty         1st in air and water pollution         1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance         1st in percentage of children without health insurance         1st in executions (an average of 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as         governor)         !The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is ranked as follows:         50th in spending for teachers' salaries         49th in spending on the environment         48th in per-capita funding for public health         47th in delivery of social services         42nd in child-support collections         41st in per-capita spending on public education and ...         5th in percentage of population living in poverty         1st in air and water pollution         1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance         1st in percentage of children without health insurance         1st in executions (an average of 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as         governor)         !</html>