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
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.
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