Tag Archives: Poverty
After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign
Feeding Texas is now collecting donations to help pay off school lunch debts and encourage schools to adopt more generous meal policies.
Feeding Texas is now collecting donations to help pay off school lunch debts and encourage schools to adopt more generous meal policies....Read More
Going It Alone
More than 40 percent of Texas families living in poverty are single-mother households.
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
Texas Demographer Has Given the Same Speech for 25 Years. Is Anyone Listening?
'Unless we reverse the trends that we’re seeing now, we will be a poorer, less-educated state,' the former state demographer says.
“Unless we reverse the trends that we’re seeing now, we will be a poorer, less-educated state,” the former state demographer says....Read More
ACLU Alleges ‘Debtors’ Prison’ in Galveston County Town
Lawsuit filed Thursday claims Santa Fe officials hiked fines to pad city budget.
A lawsuit filed Thursday claims Santa Fe, Texas, officials are illegally jailing poor Texans as part of a scheme to raise more money from traffic fines....Read More
The Last Days of Tent City
As authorities prepared to evict its residents, a reporter spent six weeks in Dallas’ biggest homeless camp.
As Dallas authorities prepared to evict Tent City's residents, a reporter spent six weeks living among those who are being shuffled from one camp to the next....Read More
Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’
In the Observer's June poem, Patti Radle remembers streetwise preacher Father Lorenzo Rosebaugh, who ate with the people he served....Read More
The House Always Wins
Some legislators want to keep affordable housing out of their districts — and they've given themselves the power to do it.
Some legislators want to keep affordable housing out of their districts — and they've given themselves the power to do it....Read More
Shame for the Holidays: Fort Worth Council Member Takes on Panhandlers
Gyna Bivens conceded that her plan for 'most wanted' panhandler posters may be 'somewhat illegal.'
To Bivens, though, this isn’t about compassion for the homeless. It’s about personal safety. On Facebook on Wednesday, Bivens shared a few stories of people...Read More
Texas Cities Leading the Way on Living Wages
When Jerry Gonzalez went to work for the city of San Antonio in the early 1980s, he made a little more than $6 an hour doing electrical work. It was a far cry f...Read More