Monday, June 30, 2014

Changes in Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 2000 to 2010

"In 2010, approximately 14.9 percent  of the total U.S. population lived in poverty. However, poverty is not distributed evenly across neighborhoods. There are neighborhoods in every state that have higher than average poverty rates. The U.S. Census Bureau designates any census tract with a poverty rate of 20.0 percent of more as a "poverty area". In 2010, more than 77 million people lived in poverty areas"...
Poverty levels

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