poverty integration. Alternatively, if racial segregation pushed higher- and lower-income African Americans to reside together … neighborhoods, decreasing poverty integration. Using consistently bounded census tract data for thirty-six large metropolitan areas … of the metropolitan population by race and poverty status group between 1980 and 2009 to the proportions of each race and …

Many researchers advocate active local government responses to poverty and other economic disparities. In doing so …, they raise a generally unexplored question: can local governments themselves influence poverty net of other determinants …? This study extends past research in two ways by (1) analyzing the poverty-reducing role of county governments and (2 …