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

11.30.11 More Schoolchildren In Central Texas Living In Poverty (Austin American-Statesman)
 
 
11.12.11 Texas' Low Wage Status Is Clearly Not A Good Thing (Austin American-Statesman)
 
 
11.7.11 New Measure Shows Record Number In Poverty In U.S. (Austin American-Statesman)
 
 
11.1.11 A Mobile Oasis In A Food Desert (The New York Times)
 
 
 
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)
 
 
9.18.11 Child Care Subsidies Falling Short, Firm Says (Abilene Reporter-News)
 
 
 
9.2.11 Is Poverty Not ‘Sexy' Enough? (The Huffington Post)
 
 
8.29.11 Short-sighted Cuts Costly To The Poor (The Houston Chronicle)
 
 
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)
 
 
8.5.11 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)
 
 

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)
 
 
4.27.11 Texas Sales-tax Holiday Comes With A Cost (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
 
 
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)

 
11.15.10 The Recession and Child Health (First Focus)

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

 
10.21.10 Poverty, Opportunity and the Deficit: Notes for the President's Commission (Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity series)
 
 
10.18.10 Deep Poverty Reaches Record High (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
 
 
9.29.210 Texas Prosperity Misses Many (State of the Children blog)
 
 
 
 

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

 
 
9.8.10 State Makes Progress on Food Stamp Backlog (Austin American-Statesman)
 
 
 
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)
 
 
 
7.28.10 Removing One of the Root Causes of Poverty  (State of the Children blog)
 
 

7.26.10 Dropout Statistics Under Fire (San Antonio Express-News)
 

7.23.10 Close the State Loophole on Predatory Lending (Austin American-Statesman op-ed)
 
 
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)

 
 
 
 

 

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