Do transfer payments keep the poor in poverty? There are at least two ways to restate the question, two ways that imply quite different, although related, lines of inquiry. A first restatement is: Do transfer payments raise the poor out of poverty? In short, are transfer payments efficacious in...

Do the poor pay more for food? To answer this question, this study was conducted to provide an empirical analysis of grocery store access and prices across inner city and suburban communities within the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area. The comparison among different types of grocers...

Using data from 1996, 1998, and 1999 Minnesota comprehensive statewide testing of eighth graders, we examine whether Black students perform worse than White students because Blacks re more likely to attend high-poverty schools. We find the impacts of school poverty on Black students' test scores...

Do the poor pay more food? To answer this question, this study was conducted to provide an empirical analysis of grocery store access and prices across inner city and suburban communities within the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area. The comparison among different types of grocers and...