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4 million Texas households can't afford basic needs, report finds
kxan ^ | Jan. 29, 2019 | Steffi Lee

Posted on 01/29/2019 2:50:33 PM PST by bgill

More than four million, or 42 percent, of Texas households couldn’t afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation and technology in 2016, according to a new report released by United Ways of Texas. ALICE, or “Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed," are households that earn more than the federal poverty level (meaning they may not qualify for some help), but less than the basic cost of living in Texas. The ALICE project started as a pilot program in New Jersey and now includes 18 states... The report provides county-level information and tracks what Texas households experienced from 2007 to 2010, then 2016. For a family of four, the cost of basic household needs in 2016 was $52,956 and $19,428 for a single adult. “Not surprisingly, the number of households that could not afford basic needs increased by 14 percent during the Recession, but that number then increased by another 17 prevent during the recovery from 2010 to 2016, despite economic improvement,”... It costs an average of $1,133 per month for two children in licensed and accredited childcare, or $995 for registered home-based care.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: basicneeds; fakenews; income; texas
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$53k and they can't afford a bucket of KFC? No wonder this country is messed up. Drop that in half and I might put down my tiny violin.
1 posted on 01/29/2019 2:50:33 PM PST by bgill
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This sounds like garbage...................


2 posted on 01/29/2019 2:51:48 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: bgill

Child care, transportation and technology are “basic human needs”?


3 posted on 01/29/2019 2:52:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bgill

How many are illegal immigrants?


4 posted on 01/29/2019 2:52:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Red Badger

Basic needs today means a 65” flat screen and 2000 channels.


5 posted on 01/29/2019 2:53:07 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: BenLurkin

This is gearing up for the 2020 elections, putting out garbage nonsense that the millenials will eat up..............


6 posted on 01/29/2019 2:53:23 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: bgill

Get married and one stays home to take care of children thereby eliminating the cost of childcare


7 posted on 01/29/2019 2:53:33 PM PST by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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couldn’t afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation and technology in 2016
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Technology??? Like they couldn’t afford the latest two thousand dollar phone? Bummer.


8 posted on 01/29/2019 2:53:47 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: bgill

The average human is half woman and half man.


9 posted on 01/29/2019 2:53:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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10 posted on 01/29/2019 2:54:46 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bgill

BS. Extremely fake news


11 posted on 01/29/2019 2:54:54 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: bgill

Between 2010 and 2016. No mention of Obama anywhere in the article.


12 posted on 01/29/2019 2:55:48 PM PST by CatOwner
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so is that about United States citizens or does that include invader freeloaders? We live on less but do alright.


13 posted on 01/29/2019 2:56:03 PM PST by Pilated (.)
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Can't do that. You need 3 TV’s, 2 cars, a snowmobile, a Caribbean Cruise, $150 NIKE shoes...etc etc
14 posted on 01/29/2019 2:56:03 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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4 million Texas households can't afford basic needs, report finds


Bad Math, start out with a false proposition and everything that follows will be false.

15 posted on 01/29/2019 2:56:04 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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“How many are illegal immigrants?”

And we have a winner....


16 posted on 01/29/2019 2:56:33 PM PST by Vipper (We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein)
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OK, I gotta ask: if they earn “less than the basic cost of living” then how are they alive?


17 posted on 01/29/2019 2:56:46 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
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TOTAL BULLSHIITE.


18 posted on 01/29/2019 2:57:07 PM PST by TADSLOS (Who will be our John Brown?)
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To: bgill

Rubbish


19 posted on 01/29/2019 2:58:03 PM PST by Rocky
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Basic needs today means a 65” flat screen and 2000 channels.
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And the Facebook account to brag about it on a top of the line smartphone.
Anything less causes emotional suffering and PTSD requiring a registered service animal.


20 posted on 01/29/2019 2:59:24 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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