Figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that El Paso County was the third-poorest in the nation. According to the federal registry, a family of five lives in poverty if the household income is less than $23,400. For a family of three, the income poverty line is $16,600 a year.
A detailed look at El Paso's poverty numbers shows that 40 percent of all children younger than 18 live in poverty and that children living in households headed by single mothers are the worst off.
Tonie Ponce-Kreye is the principal at the School-Age Parent Center in the El Paso Independent School District. The center is a high-school campus for pregnant girls. About 500 students are enrolled in the program, which is for EPISD students.
2006-08-31
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