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A Fighting Chance: Sarah and Matt

Sarah and Matt are living paycheck-to-paycheck in Austin, Texas. When their third child Cooper, now 3, was born with dislocated hips and crisscrossed legs, he

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A Fighting Chance: Delores

It took Delores a long time to pull herself out of poverty. As a single mother of five children in Bryan, Texas, she couldn’t find

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OPED–The Governor’s Big Family

In our weekly Austin American-Statesman column, our executive director F. Scott McCown lays out why the proposed constitutional limit on spending would handcuff our future

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2013 Lege–Women’s Health

In 2011, family planning funding in Texas took a significant hit. Clinics across the state lost a total of $73 million in state funding for

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2013 Lege–Mental Health

This is the first legislative session the Center will have a dedicated staff member to focus on issues related to behavioral health.  In this position

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