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A new statewide study shows 42 percent of Texas households struggle to make ends meet — households where at least one adult is working. In Dallas County,…
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Doris Cochran, a disabled mother of two young boys, is stockpiling canned foods these days, filling her shelves with noodle soup, green beans, peaches and…
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More than one in five Dallas children lives in poverty, while one in four Dallas families have a parent who was born in another country, a new study…
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Despite the grim, long-standing realities of income inequality in the state, 2017 proved to be a year of solid economic improvement for Texas with ongoing…
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The Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the city's first comprehensive housing policy. It's designed to address the shortage of…
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A new study by the Communities Foundation of Texas and the left-leaning Center For Public Policy Priorities evaluated education, employment, debt, housing…
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Each day, social workers must decide whether or not the children they visit should be removed from their parents’ homes. It’s a decision that changes the…
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The left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities, based in Austin, works on everything from health care to hunger.Executive Director Ann Beeson lays…
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More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the fight for equity in America's schools rages on.
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One in five North Texas children lives in poverty, and more than a quarter million are hungry as their parents struggle to feed them.Those are just a few…
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Dallas has made progress on reducing poverty, but it still has one of the highest populations of children living in poverty among major U.S. cities.The…
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The low-income housing tax credit program gave way to a booming $8 billion private industry, but as tax credits for companies increased, the number of housing units being built for the poor fell.