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Round-Up of Family Financial Security News - Friday, April 20, 2012

1.26.12 Yearlong Study Shows Central Texas Achievement Gap Begins With Children As Early As 3 (Austin American-Statesman)

11.30.11 More Schoolchildren In Central Texas Living In Poverty (Austin American-Statesman)
 
11.18.11 Too Many Texas Children Live In Poverty. We'll Be Sorry. (The Houston Chronicle)
 
11.12.11 Texas' Low Wage Status Is Clearly Not A Good Thing (Austin American-Statesman)
 
11.10.11 Number Of Texans Receiving Food Stamps Up Sharply Amid Recession (The Texas Tribune)
 
11.7.11 New Measure Shows Record Number In Poverty In U.S. (Austin American-Statesman)
 
11.3.11 Study Finds Big Spike In Poorest In The U.S. (The New York Times)
 
11.1.11 A Mobile Oasis In A Food Desert (The New York Times)
 
10.27.11 Editorial: The Cost Of High Dropout Rates Is Troubling (The Houston Chronicle)
 
10.14.11 The New Face Of American Poverty Is Often A Child's (USA Today)
 
10.11.11 New Initiative Tackles Child Hunger In Texas (Austin American-Statesman)
 
 
 
9.19.11 More Texas Students Eying College As Their Future (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
 
9.19.11 Editorial: The Poor Academics And Poverty Cycle (The Dallas Morning News)
 
9.19.11 Economic & Policy Factors Make Life Tough For Texas Children (The Baptist Standard)
 
9.18.11 Child Care Subsidies Falling Short, Firm Says (Abilene Reporter-News)
 
9.15.11 Growing Child Poverty In America: There Is Simply No Excuse (The Huffington Post)
 
9.13.11 Poverty Up, Incomes Down - And What To Do About It (The New Republic)
 
9.2.11 Is Poverty Not ‘Sexy' Enough? (The Huffington Post)
 
8.30.11 Map The Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2011 (FeedingAmerica.org)
 
8.29.11 Short-sighted Cuts Costly To The Poor (The Houston Chronicle)
 
8.22.11 A Safety Net Built Around Work – When There Is No Work (TheHill.com)
 
8.21.11 A Depressing Start To The School Year (The Houston Chronicle)
 
8.18.11 Report: 1 in 4 Texas Children Lives In Poverty (The Houston Chronicle)
 
8.8.11 Better Data, Better Outcomes: How Public Policy Is Helping Poor Children (Brookings.edu)
 
8.5.11 The Decade Of Lost Children (The New York Times)
 
8.4.11 Fuzzy Math on Grads Distorted Dropout Rate (San Antonio Express-News)

7.27.11 Texas Legislature Enacts New Payday Lender Laws (mywesttexas.com)
 
7.26.11 Racial Wealth Gap Reaches Historic Levels (dcentric.wamu.org)
 
7.21.11 Helping Troubled Kids to Reap a Better Future (Austin American Statesman editorial)
 

6.22.11 Snap Out Of It: The Case For Strengthening, Not Undermining Food Stamps (Texans Care Blog)

6.21.11 Food Program Cuts Would Strain Local Hunger Assistance (Austin-American Statesman)
 
6.13.11 How To Cut Child Poverty In Half (The New York Times)
 
6.8.11 House WIC Cuts Would End Food Assistance For 200,000 to 350,000 Low-Income Women And Children (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

5.18.11 Pay Day Loan Bill Lands On Cutting Room Floor (San Antonio Express-News)

 
5.12.11 House OKs First Pay Day Lending Bill (Austin-American Statesman)
 
5.5.11 Let's Help Vulnerable By Regulating Payday Loans (Houston Chronicle)
 
4.27.11 Texas Sales-tax Holiday Comes With A Cost (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
 
4.7.11 Texas Bill Capping Fees, Interest on Payday Loans Clears Senate Committee (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

4.3.11 Where Spending Cuts Really Hurt (Houston Chronicle)
 
2.17.11 Many Children In Texas Live In Poverty (Temple Daily Telegram)

1.24.11 Councilman Pushing for Regulation on Payday Loans (Lubbock Fox34 News)

1.23.11 Close the Payday, Auto-title Loan Loophole (El Paso Times op-ed)

1.22.11 Payday Loan Regulation Way Overdue in Texas (San Antonio Express-News editorial)

1.3.11 Extreme Poverty Up Sharply in Texas (Southern Education Foundation)

12.24.10 Suffer the Little Children (New York Times column)

12.9.10 Texas Struggles with an Education Crisis, Income Inequality and a Growing Generation Gap (Texas Observer)

11.15.10 Even Short-term Poverty can Hurt Kids' Health (The Chart Blog on CNN)
 
11.15.10 The Recession and Child Health (First Focus)

10.27.10 The Texas Food Stamp Challenge (State of the Children blog)

10.22.10 Food Stamp Usage Soars Among Working Families (Huffington Post)
 
10.21.10 Poverty, Opportunity and the Deficit: Notes for the President's Commission (Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity series)
 
10.19.10 Young Adults are the New Face of Homelessness (AOL News)
 
10.18.10 Deep Poverty Reaches Record High (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
 
10.13.10 Texas Report Card Gives Texas Low Grades on Educating Children in Poverty (Quorum Report)
 
9.29.210 Texas Prosperity Misses Many (State of the Children blog)
 
9.28.10 Income Gap Widens: Census Finds Record Gap between Rich and Poor (Associated Press)
 
9.20.10 Why Tackling Child Poverty During the Great Recession Makes Sense (Center for American Progess)
 
9.15.10 Fight Against Kids' Hunger Starts at School (USA Today)
 

9.11.10 Number of Families in Shelters Rises (New York Times)

 
9.9.10 Senator: Request for More Benefit Workers May Be Too High (Austin American-Statesman)
 
9.8.10 State Makes Progress on Food Stamp Backlog (Austin American-Statesman)
 
9.1.10 Plaintiffs Dismiss Federal Food Stamp Lawsuit; Sustaining Progress Up to Legislature (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
 
8.30.10 Record Number in Government Anti-Poverty Programs (USA Today)
 
8.30.10 Recognizing the Intersection of Race, Place and Poverty (Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity)
 
8.27.10 Slashing Aid to Poorest Texans is Out of Balance (Dallas Morning News editorial)

8.25.10 Proposed Budget Cuts Tough on Texas's Destitute, Mentally Ill: TANF Cuts Planned(Dallas Morning News)

8.26.10 HUD Announces $189 Million for Community Revitalization (U.S. Housing and Urban Development)

8.20.10 Number of Houston’s Homeless Kids Nearly Doubles (Houston Chronicle)

8.17.10 Food Stamp Fund Too Important to Be Compromised (Austin American-Statesman op-ed)
 
 
8.6.10 One-Two Punch Hits Food Stamps (Politico)
 
7.28.10 Removing One of the Root Causes of Poverty  (State of the Children blog)
 
7.28.10 The Recession Generation: Preventing Long-term Damage from Child Poverty and Young Adult Joblessness (Coalition on Human Needs)
 
7.27.10 Policing Main Street: The Poor Also Need Protecting (Newsweek)

7.26.10 Dropout Statistics Under Fire (San Antonio Express-News)
 
7.25.10 With Payday Loans, Poor Get the Loans, Firms Get the Payday (Dallas Morning News)

7.23.10 Close the State Loophole on Predatory Lending (Austin American-Statesman op-ed)
 
7.22.10 What Isn't Bigger in Texas? Number of College Degrees (Houston Chronicle)

7.22.10 Activists Seek More Electric-Bill Help for Poor Texans (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
 
7.20.10 Eating Nutritiously a Struggle When Money is Scarce (NPR)

7.14.10 Texas Children Sandwiched between Hunger and Obesity (Austin American-Statesman op-ed)
 

7.11.10 How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America (Pew Research Center)

 
7.7.10 Lower High School Dropout Rate among Students of Color Significantly Increases Economic Growth (Alliance for Excellent Education)
 
7.6.10 Arkansas, Texas ‘2 Worst' for Child Hunger (Texarkana Gazette) 
 
 

 

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