Here's how Dallas leaders plan to deal with the third-worst child poverty rate among
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Mayor Mike Rawlings unveiled a new nonprofit, the Child Poverty Action Lab, aimed at addressing the problem of childhood poverty. Nearly one in three children live in poverty in Dallas.
Nearly one in three Dallas children — more than 115,000 kids — grow up in poverty. But some of the city's biggest public and private organizations want to cut that number in half within the next two decades.
During a meeting of his Task Force on Poverty on Tuesday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings unveiled a new nonprofit, the Child Poverty Action Lab, created solely to address that issue.
The effort, born in part from the task force and Rawlings’ GrowSouth initiative, will take a similar approach to other collaborations pushed by the mayor in recent years to address homelessness, education issues and other problems. CPAL aims to combine the clout of leaders and CEOs from nine of the city’s major institutions and systems — including the City of Dallas, Dallas ISD, Parkland Health and Hospital System, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit — with various other partners working on different aspects of poverty across Dallas.
The new nonprofit hopes to gather these efforts so the groups can share data and guidance, and amplify the most successful projects that address childhood poverty’s causes and effects.
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Eviction at Dallas College
Analysis from CPAL and Dallas College explores how eviction affects Dallas College students and opportunities for support.
- Housing providers filed 4,114 evictions against 3,352 Dallas College students from 2017 to spring 2022. For students with an eviction filing while enrolled at Dallas College, just 4% went on to earn a credential.
- Black students, students with children, female students, and American Indian/Alaskan Native students are overrepresented in the subset of students with an eviction filing.
Here's how Dallas leaders plan to deal with the third-worst child poverty rate among
Community leaders launch CPAL to address Dallas’ high rate of child poverty.
- According to the U.S. Census' American Community Survey data from 2011 to 2016, children that grow up in single-parent households are up to 3 1/2 times as likely to grow up in poverty.
- CPAL combines the clout of leaders and CEOs from major city and county institutions and systems (i.e. City of Dallas, Dallas ISD, Parkland Health and Hospital System, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit) with community-based partners.
Violent crime is down in Dallas, and here’s why
Dallas has taken a multifaceted approach to reducing violent crime built on data, research, and community-based solutions.
- In 2021, violent crime in the Malcolm X & Marburg area fell 23%, outpacing the 18% reduction across the entire southeast patrol division and also outperforming the 9% citywide violent crime decrease.
- Dallas didn’t arrest its way out of violent crime which is remarkable. In 2019, police made 170 arrests in the Malcolm X and Marburg focus area. In 2021, police made only 69 arrests in that area.