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Going It Alone

More than 40 percent of Texas families living in poverty are single-mother households.

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Tue, May 2, 2017 |

courtesy Sarah Angle My 5-year-old daughter sits at the table, rocking back and forth in a rickety chair I should have replaced years ago. Peas and other discar...Read More

by Elizabeth Brenner

Op-Ed: How Texas Conservatives Keep Gay Couples Locked in Marriage

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Tue, Nov 5, 2013 |

Texas’ laws against same-sex unions may have the perverse effect of keeping same-sex couples bound in marriage....Read More

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