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The poverty among the children under the age of 18 in the United States is 20.8 percent while in the state of Texas that number is bigger by 4 percent and that amounts to the 24.8 percent. In terms of general population, the poorest people in Texas are Latino-Americans of whom 26 percent live under the poverty line.
Poverty among children under age 18 is much higher in Texas, at 24 percent,than in the United States as a whole, which is at 21 percent.