2015
 

Getting with the ACA Program, January 1, 2015  There are inequities of health insurance and access across the neighborhoods of San Angelo that affect the quality of life in various areas of the city. 

 

Kid’s Health Index Reveals Disparities, February 5, 2015  Children living in the city’s lowest-income neighborhood are more likely to experience crime than are children living in the city’s highest income neighborhood.

 

Many Struggle to Keep a Roof over Their Heads, March 5, 2015  Rental affordability is more difficult than ownership for the residents residing in half of San Angelo’s census tracts.

 

Saying NO to Citizen Complacency, April 2, 2015  The CDI Violence Index tagged San Angelo as one of the most dangerous cities when compared with other West Texas cities.

 

Drifting Apart, May 7, 2015  The majority of high-income and extremely poor families become increasingly residentially separate and insulated.

 

A Community Divided, June 4, 2015  Despite valiant efforts by agencies and leaders across San Angelo to solve economic and social problems, people with skills and resources to make community change are often limited to insulated and superficial contacts with people who most need change.

 

Waking Up from the American Dream, July 2, 2015  Harvard’s Equality of Opportunity Project shows that Tom Green County is below the average of counties in the study at helping poor children climb the income ladder.

 

Standard of Safety, August 6, 2015  Violence against women has far-reaching impacts that stretch beyond the atrocities suffered by individual victims.

 

Community Woes Linger, September 3, 2015  Despite San Angelo’s economic achievements, six of ten children still experience insecure access to food.

 

Not All Seniors Equal, October 1, 2015  Census data reveals social-economic disparities exist for senior residents across San Angelo neighborhoods.

 

Figures behind Tax Burden, November 5, 2015  Local results show that the sales tax burden takes the greatest share of income from the city’s lowest-income neighborhood.

 

Let’s Get Serious About Reducing Poverty, December 3, 2015  Many vulnerable groups lived in the most impoverished neighborhoods during the breakneck years of economic growth.