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 ...
I wonder how many section 8 vouchers have been sent to Williamson County?
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...
Isn’t Austin the liberal section of Texas?
... 2004 President George W. Bush won 68% of the vote in Williamson County while garnering only 42% in neighboring Travis County. John McCain received 55% of the vote to Barack Obama's 42% in the 2008 election. In 2012 Republican Mitt Romney defeated President Obama by a total of 59% to 38%.
Poverty on the rise in Houston suburbs
The number of poor people in Houston’s suburbs doubled between 2000 and 2011, surpassing the number in its urban area, researchers reported Monday.
I do believe that it is. My question: why haven’t these libs invited the poor into their homes?
I do believe that it is. My question: why haven’t these libs invited the poor into their homes?
Yes Austin is liberal. The suburbs are more conservative. 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!
Considering wages have not risen much in the last 10 years...
Pretty easy to see a huge increase
I was in Austin all last week. Surprised me to see a lot of "Help Wanted" signs in front of restaurants and fast-food places along the roads. Many with the pay posted on the signs. However, they were $10 to $12 per hour. Restaurants in the better areas all busy with customers, doing great. Malls seem busy enough.
It is wicked hot here too.
My advise to people from other states is to stay out.
I have a cousin in Lubbock who is politically astute and he says Texas could become a Blue State in 20 years or less.
Suburban Poverty Growing in Greater Houston
May 21, 2013 HOUSTON (FOX 26) -
Amid perhaps the most economically vibrant major metropolitan area in America, there remains persistent need and personal hardship that’s migrated steadily from the inner city to Houston’s affluent suburbs.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/22380722/2013/05/21/suburban-poverty-growing-in-greater-houston
Yeah, but it's a wet heat right?
The guy getting 15 an hour in 1992 probably came from the north east or california.
Poverty line: Two adults with two persons under age 18
2000: $17,603
2010: $22,314
Percent increase: 26.7%
I am glad to hear that Austin is having the same growth that Houston is having.
Yup. Austin is the lib arm pit of Texas. And Houston is the lib ### of Texas.
Really? Wow. Didn’t know that about Houston. Last time I was there about 10 years ago it was a dump.
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.
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.
I was just going to ask this. I would bet this and resulting chain migration are the root cause.
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
$1.4 million for a concrete trail??
In other words, we got them surrounded.
How to turn a red state blue.
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.
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.
You’re right. Sickening, to say the least.
On a side note, there’s a warning out that dogs are banned on the greenbelt trails because of coyotes.
For get that crap, Texas will not become a blue state.
What exactly does your cousin in Lubbock do? Work for the public schools?
blame the dogs, lol
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.
Its crazy. Local government makes as much sense as any other sometimes
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.
He said Texas >could< become a Blue State, not >will< become a Blue State.
Houston is booming.”
You left out the part about the traffic mess 24/7, smaller older homes on narrow city side streets being torn down and replaced by multi-family dwellings, etc. The growth is good in one respect but it is driving up the cost of living for people, increasing taxes and fees which the Gay Democrat Mayor just loves and causing an increase in crime.
Will be interesting to see who wins the battle between the preservationists in the Heights and the Mayor considering that the Village area residents couldn’t keep the City’s greedy hands out of their area.
The majority of the billionaires in the US live in the Dallas Fort Worth area - DFW - and those billionaires have quite a bit more than 1 billion, up to 20+ billion owned by Sam Walton's daughter who lives there. Next to her is Stemmons with about 9-10 billion, then others less than that but above 1 billion. Those are the known billionaires in that area.
All billionaires in the Houston area are stuck in the 1 billion, don't make it to 2 billion.
Apartment complexes will concentrate the riff-raff and the trash of society eventually too.
The city I am living in has been tearing down old apartments. They want single family homes.
blame the refinery smog
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.
This will depend on how many illegal non citizens get turned into a voting majority. Are you listening Marco? The cities are thumbprints in a sea of red and the red areas are non ambiguous.
http://www.buffalogapnews.com/
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?
Good point.
That is a neat little newspaper.
When business is good, the traffic is bad and vice verse.
That’s $30 a square foot.
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