What I did not Know

First I want to thank my colleague for enlightening me.  I always knew there was poverty in Texas, but I never understood the magnitude of the problem.  That was until I read Not in Texas.  We’re Perfect!  Through my colleague I learned a lot about the poverty issue in Texas.  Obviously the most eye opening thing was the amount of children living in poverty.

My colleague talked about this topic in hopes of making it issue more public.  I completely agree that Texas needs to make this issue on of the main topics up for discussion.  What is more important than the children of Texas?  We need our government to lead the charge in this issue.  Organizations like the Capital Area Food Bank and other programs can only help so many people.  We need more government to start funding programs and organizations in order to combat this problem.  I don’t know if we can end poverty, but we need to do something.  I share my colleague’s hope that our government will take this issue on, but it needs to be sooner rather than later.