online dashboards<\/a> that are publicly available.<\/p>\n\u201cThese responses provide information that economic growth measures alone cannot supply, including whether residents feel secure, believe opportunity is accessible, and see a future for themselves and their families in North Texas,\u201d researchers wrote in the report. It also provides community leaders and partners a source of evidence for setting priorities and examining public needs.<\/p>\n
The surveys examine the quality of life across five districts:\u00a0Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties and northern and southern Dallas County.<\/p>\n
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This year\u2019s analysis included 1,933 complete responses.<\/p>\n
The survey\u2019s theme was \u201cOne North Texas, but very different lived experiences,\u201d and it included questions related to economic pressure and food insecurity, perceptions of the American Dream, and how residents view the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Some key takeaways include:<\/p>\n
When asked their feelings on AI, 57% of people said they are \u201cuneasy or afraid,\u201d 32% said they are \u201chopeful or enthusiastic\u201d and 11% said they no feeling.
\nAlmost half of the respondents (46%) said the American Dream can happen for most people. The results were split evenly between 50% of respondents agreeing that their own opportunities exceed those of their parents and 50% agreeing current and future generations will have worse opportunities than their own generation.
\nOf people who rent their homes, 62% said they spend at least 30% of their monthly income on rent.
\nMore than half of respondents (53%) reported \u201csometimes or often\u201d running out of purchased food without money for more.<\/p>\n
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Looking ahead to next year, initiative leaders said the 2027 survey will launch in May with the findings setting the foundation for a first-ever State of North Texas Forum in September.<\/p>\n
The team has other goals for growing the initiative in the future, including making its dashboards more accessible, more focused surveys and deeper regional integration of the information\u00a0collected.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy bridging technology and real-world policy, we aim to move research from a one-way pipeline into a continuous loop of learning within our region, and it positions UT Dallas as a neutral convener at the table where North Texas makes its decisions, hopefully with good data,\u201d\u00a0said Jennifer Holmes, dean of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.<\/p>\n
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This reporting is part of the Future of North Texas, a community-funded journalism initiative supported by the Commit Partnership, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Lisa and Charles Siegel, the McCune-Losinger Family Fund, The Meadows Foundation, the Perot Foundation, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas. The News retains full editorial control of this coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bicyclists pass along the Trinity Skyline Trail during a warm summer day in Dallas. Shafkat Anowar\/The Dallas Morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,92897,150100,93339,100434,95705,89397,88338,89138,99896,95042],"class_list":["post-473742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-denton-county","tag-tp-food-insecurity","tag-tp-future-of-north-texas","tag-tp-future-of-north-texas-infrastructure","tag-tp-southern-dallas","tag-tp-ai-artificial-intellgience","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-future-of-north-texas-economy","tag-tp-north-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}