[bgill]

Thanks to the open border and this administration's economy.

[GeronL]

I wonder how many section 8 vouchers have been sent to Williamson County?

[dragnet2]

Census finds that the number of people in poverty in Austin's suburbs more than doubled in the last decade

And here we're told the Texas economy was doing fantastic...

Had a friend move to Texas about 4 years ago, he can't find a full time job paying over 15 bucks an hour...He was making that in the late 90s...

[Popman]

How much did the poverty line benchmark move from 2000 to 2010...

Considering wages have not risen much in the last 10 years...

Pretty easy to see a huge increase

[ctdonath2]

One of the biggest problems with poverty is that the official definition keeps getting revised upwards by people who benefit from the numbers going up instead of down.

[mom of young patriots]

I don’t listen much to this station. Their relationship with the comprehensive truth is as casual as it is anywhere in the media. I see the street corner beggers, but then they have always been there. They clearly stake out a corner and fight off all intruders. Lately, I have noticed that they are better dressed and looking very well fed. Not at all like someone you’d assume was destitute. These scammers are thick at the intersections and I think that the relatively mild winters attract them from other areas. I know there is real poverty and need everywhere in the country including the Austin area, but who is to know what the real numbers are when the ones who choose the “homeless” lifestyle as a career are showing up in the soup lines too?