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• Potential Policy Gaps in Parental Child Safety Placements
• Implementing the Permanent Care Assistance Program
• Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in Texas

• The State of Texas Children 2009-10
• Hard Times for Food Hardship in U.S., Texas
• Why CPPP Supports Congress' Health Reform Bills and What You Can Do to Make the Final Bill Better

New Analysis Anticipates Child Poverty Increase

More than one of every five Texas children, or nearly 1.5 million kids, lived in poverty during 2008—and when data from 2009 are compiled, that number is likely to increase to one of every four kids, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by First Focus and Brookings researcher Julia Isaacs. The increase in poor children is placing an even heavier burden on an already strained network of private charities and state agencies already reeling from the triple punch of inadequate funding, staffing shortages, and a broken eligibility system that withholds critical assistance to needy families.