The proposed changes amount to a broad expansion of the government’s ability to deny visas or residency to immigrants if they or members of their household benefit from programs like Medicare Part D or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Demographics
Report says gentrification threatens to displace Austin’s low-income residents, communities of color
The city council is slated to discuss a new University of Texas at Austin study that identifies neighborhoods where redevelopment threatens to push out existing residents.
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Demographics
Poverty in Texas drops to lowest levels in more than a decade
With poverty down and incomes up, 2017 proved to be a solid year of economic improvement for Texas even though Texans of color continue to be left behind.
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Texas Voting Rights
After loss at Supreme Court, groups continue push for federal oversight of Texas redistricting
Some of the groups that have sued over the state’s political maps made their intentions clear in a court filing Wednesday.
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Families Divided
Across the country, basements, offices and hotels play short-term host to people in ICE custody
The temporary holding facilities often come as a surprise to the unsuspecting civilians who work or live nearby.
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Demographics
Trump administration wants to block Texas groups from census citizenship fight
U.S. Justice Department attorneys say the relief sought in a lawsuit targeting the addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire “is as extraordinary as it is unprecedented.”
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In Harvey's Wake
Nearly 10 percent of Texans displaced by Harvey still haven’t gone home, survey says
Meanwhile, 15 percent of homes damaged or destroyed by the storm are still unlivable. Yet FEMA and Texas officials aren’t keeping track of how many people remain displaced one year later.
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Criminal Justice
Black Americans are still victims of hate crimes more than any other group
James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death in Texas 20 years ago, became one of the namesakes for a 2009 federal law expanding hate crime legislation. But just 100 hate crimes have been pursued by federal prosecutors between January 2010 and July 2018.
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Demographics
Under Trump, the backlog of U.S. citizenship applications in Texas is growing
After a jump in applications in Texas ahead of the 2016 elections, green card holders seeking to become U.S. citizens have been caught in a growing backlog that has escalated under the Trump administration.
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Texas Elections 2018
“The door to the future”: How Eddie Bernice Johnson could make history if Democrats win back the House
Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, has served in the U.S. House for 26 years. If her party wins control of the chamber, she’s well positioned to become the first African-American representative from Texas to lead a standing committee in Congress.
