This project provides a realistic picture of how much it costs Texas families in different areas of the state to meet their
basic needs.
What is the Family Budget Estimator?
100
What is this statement: "We envision a prosperous Texas where economic and social opportunity is available in fair measure to all."
What is CPPP's vision statement?
100
These are all financial barriers to what?
Rising college costs
Inadequate financial aid
Student loan dependence
Rising student debt
Unmet need
What is attending college?
100
__% of low-income children whose parents had low savings remained in the bottom quartile as adults.
What is 50?
100
__ of 11 kids in the US live in Texas.
What is 1?
200
A 2-parent, 2-kid family needs to earn approximately this much a year just to make ends meet in Dallas and Fort Worth.
What is $48,000?
200
This is the year the organization was founded.
What is 1985?
200
This organization empowers Texans to save for the future, complete college, and establish careers.
What is Opportunity Texas?
200
Less than ___% of Texans are earning a middle-class income or higher.
What is 30?
200
This project provides data on child well being and is a resource to help create, implement, and encourage good policy and effective services to better the lives of Texas children.
What is Texas Kids Count?
300
This percent of Texans won't have enough savings to get by for 3 months during a sudden job loss or medical emergency.
What is 28%?
300
This was the original focus of the organization.
What is health care?
300
Children are nearly ___ times more likely to emerge out of poverty as adults if they complete college.
What is 3?
300
How do these affect savings? Texas households are unbanked/underbanked, workers do not have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, and Texans have subprime credit scores.
What is barriers to savings?
300
CPPP helped lead a coalition to provide low-income school districts access to what in the summer?
What is nutritious meals?
400
This is Texas' rank in state spending per resident.
What is 47th?
400
This is the percent of expenses that went towards funding programs.
What is 89%?
400
Students with designated college savings accounts are __ times more likely to attend college than their counterparts who don’t have accounts.
What is 6?
400
This is a long-term savings vehicle.
What is US savings bonds?
400
___% Texas kids have parents who lack secure employment.
What is 31%?
500
This is the percent of jobs in the Austin area that don't pay enough for a single parent with 1 child to reach the necessary annual income.
What is 67%?
500
CPPP is affiliated with this political party.
What is nonpartisan?
500
This program integrates personal financial education into the K-12 curriculum and highlights the importance of saving for college.
What is Smarter Texas?
500
This is a problem with mainstream savings accounts that make it even harder for "small savers" to begin building their savings fund.