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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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