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 …

This article synthesizes an extensive literature on how local characteristics might affect the nature of poverty …, particularly U.S. rural poverty. The attributes discussed include the natural environment, economic structure, public and community … can affect poverty and indicates what this implies about effective antipoverty policies. Multiple causal factors affect …

Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census 2000 reports that hundreds … of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only populations that are disproportionately minority, lack … the potential antipoverty benefits of economic development in high-poverty counties, the authors compare their poverty …

This analysis seeks to better understand the geography of American poverty over time. Cluster analysis is used to group … 34,908 minor civil divisions according to their similarity in mean-centered poverty rates from 1980 to 2000. Logistic … groupings and that over three thousand subcounty places had poverty rates of nearly 20 percent above the national average going …

This article assesses the effect of labor demand and labor supply conditions on distribution of poverty across small … communities in Michigan. The poverty model used for the analysis is based on the production behavior of the communities' residents …, and is estimated using Census 2000 data. The difference in regional poverty rates is explained primarily by variation in …

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 …