Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The Poverty that Surrounds Us

I don't want to give the impression that all I do is sit around and read the New York Times but I was quite fascinated that they wrote such a detailed article on our part of the world.

Inside a Jumble of Poverty, Texans Build a Future

The article is about the poverty stricken subdivisions known as colonias. They mostly focus on the areas further south but these same types of settlement are all around us here in Nueces County. In fact a number of colonias receieved the flood buckets we assembled because they are right along the Nueces river and the bad conditions were made intolerable by devastating flooding.

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