Economically disadvantaged students score lower on TAAS tests.
Poverty puts children at a greater risk of falling behind in school.
Inadequate nutrition associated with poverty effects cognitive development and brain formations. Clearly, our socioeconomic future will be increasingly tied to the future of our minority populations. This tragic loss and waste of productivity will have a serious impact on the future economy of Houston, perhaps even more disastrous as the oil bust of the '80s but will last years longer.