DALLAS — Texas is on the verge of becoming the leader in dementia research, if voters approve Proposition 14 on the ballot next month.

“It's truly tremendous to see a state step up and show the leadership that Texas is right now with passing the DPRIT piece of legislation earlier this year and now going to the ballot to fund it this November,” Joanne Pike , DrPH, president of the Alzheimer’s Association, said on this week's episode of Y'all-itics.

Proposition 14 sets aside $3 billion over the next decade to fund DPRIT – the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute – in Texas.

It is a sum no other state has come close to and one that almost matches the federal government’s outlay against Alzheimer’s over the last year.

“The federal government invests $3.8 billion annually in the fig

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