American Community Survey updates poverty statistics

By Ed Sterling

Texas’ poverty rate improved to 17.2 percent in 2014, according to U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey released Sept. 17. Embedded in that statistic is this: more than 4.5 million Texans  1.7 million of whom are children still live in poverty. In 2014, the poverty line for a family of three was about $19,000 per year.

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