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Exploring Dallas Poverty in Local, Regional, and National Contexts
- 1. Exploring Dallas Poverty in Local, Regional, and National Contexts Dr. Timothy M. Bray
- 2. Will Rogers “It’s not what we don’t know that hurts us, it’s what we know that just ain’t so!”
- 3. Regional Population Change, 2000-2014 4,145,659 2,218,889 1,167,205 6,371,773 2,368,139 1,197,816 6,954,003 2,518,638 1,281,031 0 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA Dallas County City of Dallas Population 2000 2010 2014
- 4. Regional Poverty Rates, 2000-2014 11.3% 13.4% 17.8% 13.4% 19.2% 22.3% 14.8% 19.5% 24.5% 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% Dallas-Fort Worth - Arlington MSA Dallas County City of Dallas Percent Below Poverty 2000 2010 2014
- 5. Dallas in the National Context 26 24.5 23.3 22.4 22.4 22 21 20.9 15.7 9.4 45.6 46.4 42.3 42.8 43.5 40.8 40.8 38.2 29.9 22.9 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Poverty and Near Poverty Rates, 2014 Cities of 1 Million or More Below 100% Poverty Below 185% Poverty
- 6. How is Poverty Defined? How Much Is Enough? How Much is Too Little? "Mollie Orshansky 1967" by Unknown Social Security Administration History Archives. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
- 7. Poverty in Dallas Among Highest in Poverty Rates • In 2014, 25% of Dallas residents lived below the poverty line. • 46% lived below 185% of the poverty line. Poverty Outpaced Population Growth • Population grew by 8% from 2000-2014. • Persons living in poverty grew by 49% from 2000-2014.
- 8. Children in Poverty 2000 Number of Children Living in Poverty 79,045 Percent of Children Living in Poverty 26% Percent of Poor Who Are Children 38% 2014 Number of Children Living in Poverty 125,884 Percent of Children Living in Poverty 38% Percent of PoorWho Are Children 41% 59% Increase Poor Children, 8% Increase Pop Highest Poverty Rate and 2nd FastestAmong Large Cities
- 9. Hispanics in Poverty 2000 Number of Hispanics Living in Poverty 101,705 Percent of Hispanics Living in Poverty 24% Percent of the PoorWho Are Hispanic 49% 2014 Number of Hispanics Living in Poverty 156,104 Percent of Hispanics Living in Poverty 30% Percent of the PoorWho Are Hispanic 50% 53% Increase Poor Persons, 8% Increase Pop 3rd Largest Poverty Rate and 3rd FastestAmong Large Cities
- 10. African Americans in Poverty 2000 Number of African Americans Living in Poverty 72,320 Percent of African Americans Living in Poverty 24% Percent of the Poor Who AreAfrican American 35% 2014 Number of African Americans Living in Poverty 98,888 Percent of African Americans Living in Poverty 32% Percent of the Poor Who Are African American 32% 37% Increase Poor Persons, 2% Increase Pop 2nd Largest Poverty Rate and 4th FastestAmong Large Cities
- 11. Dallas in the Regional Context: Poverty in Major Cities
- 12. Dallas in the State Context: Poverty in Major Cities
- 13. Legend City Limits 2010 Census Tracts Change in Concentrated Poverty No Longer Concentrated Newly Concentrated Remains Concentrated 1 inch = 8.29 miles Change In Concentrated Poverty: 2000-2013
- 14. A Rising Tide… Can Changing Concentrated Poverty Affect the Poverty of the Poor? +1.9 -2.7 +3.1 +3.0
- 16. Poverty Impacts Brain Development
- 17. Economic Distress Impacts Civic Participation 46% of Non-voters have family incomes less than $30,000 per year. Only 19% of likely voters are from low-income families.
- 18. Poverty: Damaged Child Dorothea Lange Oklahoma City, OK, USA 1936 (Colorized by Kelly Short)
- 19. Annual Message to Congress December 1, 1862 “It is not ‘can any of us imagine better?’ but, ‘can we all do better?’The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” -Abraham Lincoln “Lincoln the Letter Writer” -Lloyd Ostendorf, 1987
- 20. For More Information Dr. Timothy M. Bray Institute for Urban Policy Research The University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell Road, WT20 Richardson, Texas 75080 V: 972-883-5430 F: 972-883-5431 timothy.bray@utdallas.edu http://iupr.utdallas.edu @timothy_bray, @iuprdallas