Report sheds light on poor working mothers in Texas

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Report sheds light on poor working mothers in Texas
By Shelby Cole, Texas Tribune : February 14, 2014 : Updated: February 14, 2014 8:38pm

Fifty-six percent of Texas women heading low-income households lack any college education, the third-highest percentage of any state, according to a report released this week by the Working Poor Families Project.

The Washington, D.C.-based project, a national initiative focused on state workforce development policies, based the report on census data. That data also says that 61 percent of female-headed working families in Texas are low-income, an increase from 59 percent in 2007, according to the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank that advocates for low-income Texans.

Don Baylor Jr., a senior policy analyst at the center, said Texas government should be working to help residents earn degrees.

“Texas only spends a drop in the bucket compared to other states on services that would enable folks to get a high school diploma or a GED,” Baylor said.