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Old Posted Apr 12, 2010, 10:36 PM
Scottolini Scottolini is offline
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Originally Posted by priller View Post
I wonder if it's because we have fewer poor households?
http://caritasofaustin.org/about/documents/2010PovertyFactSheet.pdf

Just because Austin doesn't have areas looking like this...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...US:official%26channel%3Ds%26tbs%3Disch:1

does not mean that there aren't wide areas of poverty in this city. Many of the poor live in apartment complexes in suburban areas which may not look all that bad from your car, but have many of the social ills of the "ghetto" you see above.