Poverty in Texas

I have been thinking about the title of Rick Perry's book.  Fed Up.  He is fed up with Washington.  This made me think of all the people in Texas, and across the United States who are not fed up, who are actually fed very little.  So this is what I found:

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 28% of children in Texas live at or below the poverty line with.  Nationally that number is a bit better, though still shameful at 24%.

The Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture places Texas at 17.1% for people living at or below the poverty level.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2008-2009, 16% of people in Texas were poor, compared to 13.3% nationally.

Of the ten poorest counties in the United States, the top three are in Texas.

Maybe Fed Up! was not as clever a title as he imagined....

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, 

but by our institutions, great is our sin."

--Charles Darwin