The Dallas Morning News, September 8, 2016: How Can a City as Rich as Dallas Be So Poor?

“It absolutely seems insurmountable when you listen to the Dallas City Council talk about solving poverty. They go round and round and round, pointing fingers — at DART, for making it hard for workers to get to their jobs, or at the Dallas Independent School District, for failing its most at-risk students — while proposing vague solutions. The report that went to the council Wednesday, delivered by Montoya and Clayton, reiterated horror stories told before, this time illustrated with poverty maps they had to make themselves because no one at City Hall actually does that. It's full of grim statistics and dire pronouncements so unfathomable they're almost incomprehensible, such as ‘Dallas has the highest neighborhood inequity of any city in the U.S. larger than 250,000.’”