More than 1 in 5 Austin residents live in poverty

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Thanks for all those minimum wage jobs, Perry!

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/more-than-1-in-5-austin-residents-live-1872403.html
"More people in Austin lived in poverty, were on food stamps and saw their median family household incomes shrink in 2010, according to new census data out today depicting the growing toll of the weakened economy in Central Texas and across the state.

About 18 percent of all Texans lived in poverty in 2010, more than 3 percentage points above the national average.

But the percentage was even higher in Austin, where more than 1 in 5 people — and nearly 28 percent of children younger than 18 — lived below the federal poverty line last year, the third consecutive year the poverty rate increased in the capital.

In 2009, about 18.4 percent of all Austin residents and 27.4 percent of children younger than 18 lived in poverty, according to census estimates last year."

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1. Yep saw that today too

And I'm sure that "fake jobs miracle" Perry touts for the state is doing the same all over the state. Creating minimum wage jobs with no opportunities for advancement and more and more people slipping into poverty.

I really think this whole financial crisis was a boon to corporations and mean/angry rich people. They want to take America back to the days of slavery - one way or another. Rick Perry is a convenient pawn to help them.