Texas
Read JSRI’s 2009 profile of poverty and inequality in the State of Texas »
A sample of the profile follows:
Who are Texas’s Poor?
- 1,497,803 are children (22.5% of kids)
- 287,987 are elders (12.2% of seniors)
- 1,974,649 are adults 18-64 (13.4 % of adults)
- 1,399,592 are in single parent families (33.7% of such families)
Looked at another way:
- 1,667,469 males are poor (14.2 % males)
- 2,092,962 females are poor (17.5 % of females)
- 2,483,561 whites are poor (14.1 % of whites)
- 605,883 blacks are poor (22.5 % of blacks)
- 2,092,272 Hispanics are poor (24.0% of Hispanics)
- 824,225 immigrants are poor (21.5 % of foreign-born)
Dr. Sue Weishar is the lead JSRI liaison to Texas groups, assisted by other staff as appropriate.
Particular articles of note are:
- So Help Us God: Life, Death, and Voting Rights in the Texas Colonias--Michael Seifert [JustSouth Quarterly--Spring 2012]
- A Beacon of Hope on the Border--Fr. Edwin L. Gros, SJ [JustSouth Quarterly, Fall 2010]
- Contradictions on the border--Chavez [JustSouth E-Newsletter, May 2010]
- Suffer the children--Chavez [JustSouth E-Newsletter, February 2010]
Related organizations
- Catholic Family Service of Amarillo
- Catholic Charities of Central Texas (Austin)
- Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi
- Catholic Charities of Dallas
- Catholic Charities of Fort Worth
- Catholic Charities of Galveston – Houston
- Catholic Charities of San Antonio
- Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas (Beaumont)
- Catholic Charities of Tyler
- Center for Inter-American and Border Studies (UTEP)
- Center for Public Policy Priorities
- Catholic Family Services Lubbock
- Catholic Social Services of Laredo
- Father Young Social Justice Institute of St. Thomas University
- Lone Star Legal Aid
- Rice University Houston Area Survey
- Texas Association of Community Action Agencies
- Texas Catholic Conference
- Texas Forward
- Texas Impact
- The Texas Observer
- Texas Prison Bidness
