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Report: Poverty In Williamson County Tripled (Texas)
KEYE TV ^ | Aug 1, 2013 | Fred Cantu

Posted on 08/03/2013 3:16:20 PM PDT by bgill

The U.S. Census finds that the number of people in poverty in Austin's suburbs more than doubled in the last decade -- up a whopping 142 percent. Meanwhile, Williamson County started off with 11,735 people living in poverty in 2000 and ended up with 34,069 by 2010.

That figure includes a lot of working poor. People who perhaps accepted a limited time offer of a job and a place to live. And others lost their job altogether in the economic downturn of 2008.

(Excerpt) Read more at keyetv.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: economy; jobs; poverty; texas
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To: af_vet_rr

I am glad to hear that Austin is having the same growth that Houston is having.


21 posted on 08/03/2013 3:50:01 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Jim Robinson

Yup. Austin is the lib arm pit of Texas. And Houston is the lib ### of Texas.


22 posted on 08/03/2013 4:07:09 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Ditter

Really? Wow. Didn’t know that about Houston. Last time I was there about 10 years ago it was a dump.


23 posted on 08/03/2013 4:08:33 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: laplata
Texas could become a Blue State in 20 years or less.

With all the illegals from the south, the Katrina trash from the east, the CA libtards from the west and the influx of muslims from who knows where, it's sure a possiblity.

24 posted on 08/03/2013 4:19:58 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: dragnet2

Don’t forget the population in Texas may have also increased proportionally. The report does not tell you what percent of the population is in poverty so it doesn’t give a very accurate picture. If the population has double also then things are basically the same.


25 posted on 08/03/2013 4:23:01 PM PDT by Linfell
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To: sarasmom

I was just going to ask this. I would bet this and resulting chain migration are the root cause.


26 posted on 08/03/2013 4:25:52 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Ditter
"Houston is booming. The construction going on is astounding, road building, strip centers, highrise buildings, houses of all price ranges. New stores and business everywhere you look. Amazing!"

Same with Austin. There's urban sprawl everywhere. New subdivisions going in every day. They just poured a 0.9 mile sidewalk, um, "urban trail" is the fancy dancy nice eco-friendly green name, that cost the taxpayers $1.4 million dollars -

To the untrained eye it may look like a big, long sidewalk. But no, this is a nearly mile long "urban trail," one worthy of speeches at a podium, a ceremonial ribbon cutting and -- of course -- a hefty price tag. Linda Watson, CEO of Capital Metro says, "With engineering, design, construction, landscaping, the grant we received was $1.4 million and we got this beautiful 10-foot-wide sidewalk and the canopy of trees that we're going to have."

http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/cap-metro-unveils-14-million-urban-trail-10941.shtml

27 posted on 08/03/2013 4:40:29 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: bgill

$1.4 million for a concrete trail??


28 posted on 08/03/2013 4:47:03 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Jim Robinson
Austin is a liberal doughnut hole with all the conservatives living on the doughnut.

In other words, we got them surrounded.

29 posted on 08/03/2013 4:47:12 PM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: GeronL

How to turn a red state blue.


30 posted on 08/03/2013 4:54:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: sarasmom

Probably not many Katrina people in Williamson County but possibly increases in Hispanic
population. At some point the Katrina thing is going to have fissile out. It’s hard
to get accurate data on the number that have become Texas residents but according to some
estimates it is much less than the 250,000 or so estimate that came immediately after Katrina.


31 posted on 08/03/2013 5:02:21 PM PDT by deport
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To: GeronL

Our Capitol Metro gets half a cent in tax for every dollar spent in Austin and a number of surrounding cities.

Nobody actually rides any of their transportation vehicles, so they have to spend it on bike and leg trails.


32 posted on 08/03/2013 5:05:55 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: bgill

You’re right. Sickening, to say the least.


33 posted on 08/03/2013 5:12:24 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: GeronL

On a side note, there’s a warning out that dogs are banned on the greenbelt trails because of coyotes.


34 posted on 08/03/2013 5:14:01 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: laplata

For get that crap, Texas will not become a blue state.

What exactly does your cousin in Lubbock do? Work for the public schools?


35 posted on 08/03/2013 5:15:56 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, since then a State in the US, but it is Still Texas where I live.)
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To: bgill

blame the dogs, lol


36 posted on 08/03/2013 5:16:47 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: deport

The Katrina thing isn’t going to fizzle out for me. I know of some who were given P R I M E church and ranch land. They’ve built themselves a dozen or so houses on it and don’t pay taxes. Meanwhile, my property taxes have gone from two weeks’ pay to 3 months’ pay.


37 posted on 08/03/2013 5:18:51 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: txhurl

Its crazy. Local government makes as much sense as any other sometimes


38 posted on 08/03/2013 5:20:55 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Texas Fossil

For get that crap, Texas will not become a blue state.

What exactly does your cousin in Lubbock do? Work for the public schools?


No, smart ass. He’s in the oil business.


39 posted on 08/03/2013 5:21:26 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Texas Fossil

He said Texas >could< become a Blue State, not >will< become a Blue State.


40 posted on 08/03/2013 5:25:36 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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