More Texas Children Living in High-Poverty Areas
A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that the number of Texas children living in areas of high poverty has increased 43 percent over the last 10 years. That means more than 1.1 million children live in neighborhoods where at least 30 percent of the families are at or below the poverty line.
Audio: Ben Philpott's story for KUT News
“This really does look at the environment in which the child and the family live,” said Laura Speer, an associate director at the foundation. Speer said that even children from middle-class families are affected by the ...
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gypsy314 ne
Well folks we should have money to help American poor children BUT a lot of our welfare goes toward supporting illegal aliens. I figure when Americans has had enough they will demand the illegal aliens leave and demand the government cut all aid to illegal aliens. Look folks Obama is supporting the illegal aliens with our tax dollars most of borrow from China. I think it is time to stop Democrats from handing out our tax dollars to illegal aliens and other country's that want to harm us. Every singe American knows this and now is the time to send message to democrats and Obama NO MORE. We can do this by firing every single democrat from office in November.
Anyone BUT Obama and democrats.
JC DemocratofTejas
Just the way conservative repugs like it.