The US rural poverty rate has been consistently higher than the urban rate for several decades. One question might be …. Using annual 1985-2015 data and regressing both poverty rates on the national unemployment rate and the Gini coefficient …

The persistence of poverty in the modern American economy, with rates of poverty in some areas approaching those of …-level data to explore potential explanations for the observed regional variation in the rates of poverty. The use of counties … allows examination of both non-metropolitan area and metropolitan area poverty. Factors considered include those that relate …