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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire is a 2010 book by Robert Perkinson, published by Metropolitan Books. Perkinson, an American Studies professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa , [ 1 ] describes the criminal justice system in Texas and how it formed in the context of the post- United States Civil War environment. [ 2 ]
Additionally, the study identified six “terrorist plots” in Texas and two extremist murders. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 72 hate and anti-government groups in Texas in 2022.
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas is a 1968 collection of essays by American writer Larry McMurtry. In 1981 McMurtry said the book marked a dividing line in his career after which he no longer wrote about living in the country (although he would go on to write books with country settings again).
The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the agency in charge of measuring poverty, the poverty threshold for a family of four in Texas is $29,950, or $14,880 for an individual before taxes.
Texas prosecutors had urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing Wednesday evening to reject the emergency appeal brought by Roberson's legal team in the wake of an earlier decision from the state's ...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords , many of whom face eviction .
OpEd: During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I urge you to find ways to see the humanity in others and work toward wholeness in all of our lives.