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H-E-B brings free holiday feast to Dallas and more popular stories

The Feast of Sharing takes place November 20.

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Editor's note: The top Dallas news of the week includes a free Thanksgiving feast for the community and a host of new restaurants to try right now. Plus, six Dallas 'burbs are among the best places to move to in Texas. Catch up on our most popular stories below, then visit our event planner for more weekend fun.

1. Volunteers wanted for H-E-B's free holiday feast at Fair Park Dallas. H-E-B and its family of brands will bring back the annual Feast of Sharing dinner this holiday season. The Dallas event is Thursday, November 20 from 3-7 pm at Centennial Hall in Fair Park.

2. Where to eat in Dallas right now: 8 fresh new restaurants for November. For many people, the big dining-out event in November will be Thanksgiving, and wouldn't you know it, we have a list for that. But you can't eat tofurkey every day. You crave something different, something new, and this edition of Where to Eat has them all.

Centrale Italia pizza Pizza at Centrale Italiia. Google/Siqi Wang

3. 6 Dallas suburbs make top 10 list of best Texas cities to move to. Several Dallas neighbors have been deemed the best Texas cities to move to in a new report from ConsumerAffairs.

4. Busy Dallas chef to open Tex-Mex restaurant in Frisco. A prolific Dallas chef is opening a new restaurant. Muchacho Tex-Mex, the authentic Tex-Mex restaurant from Big Dill Hospitality and award-winning chef Omar Flores, is opening in Frisco in spring 2026.

5. New tea at Dallas' Mansion on Turtle Creek is seriously surreal. Dallas is a little tea crazy these days, but the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek has launched a new tea that stands out as truly surreal. Called the Surrealism Art Afternoon Tea, it's a limited-time immersive culinary experience timed to coincide with the International Surrealism Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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income analysis

This is the family income needed for one parent to stay home in Texas

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With costs to raise a child soaring over $20,000 a year in Texas, some households might decide to have one parent work while the other stays at home to raise their child.

The cost of raising a child has ballooned in major metros like Dallas-Fort Worth, forcing many families to weight the choice between paying for child care or having one parent stay home full-time.

A recent analysis from SmartAsset determined the minimum income one parent needs to earn to support their partner staying at home to raise one child in all 50 states. In Texas, that amount is just under $75,000.

The study used the MIT Living Wage Calculator to compare the annual living wages needed for a household with two working adults and one child, and a household with one working adult, a stay-at-home parent, and one child. The study also calculated how much it would cost to raise a child with two working parents based on factors such as "food, housing, childcare, healthcare, transportation, incremental income taxes and other necessities."

A Texas household with one working parent would need to earn $74,734 a year to support their stay-at-home partner and their child, the report found. If both parents worked in the household, it would require an additional $10,504 in annual income to raise their child.

SmartAsset said the cost to raise a child in Texas in a two-working-parent household adds up to $23,587. Raising a child in North Texas, however, is slightly more affordable. A separate SmartAsset study from June 2025 determined it costs $22,337 to raise a child in Dallas-Fort Worth.

In the report's ranking of states with the highest minimum income needed to support a family with one working adult, a stay-at-home parent, and one child, Texas ranked 32nd on the list.

In other states like Massachusetts where raising a child can cost more than $40,000 a year, the report's author says families will look for ways to reduce any financial burdens.

"This often includes considerations around who’s going to work in the household, and whether young children will require paid daycare services while parents are occupied," the report said. "With tradeoffs abound, many parents might seek to understand the minimum income needed to keep the family afloat while allowing the other parent to stay home to raise a young child."

The top 10 states with the lowest minimum income threshold to support a three-person family on one income are:

West Virginia – $68,099
Arkansas – $68,141
Mississippi – $70,242
Kentucky – $70,408
North Dakota – $70,949
Oklahoma – $71,718
Ohio – $72,114
South Dakota – $72,218
Alabama – $72,238
Nebraska – $72,966

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