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The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s

November 3, 2011, Alan Berube, Elizabeth Kneebone and Carey Nadeau

After a dramatic drop in the 1990s, concentrated poverty rose again in the 2000s, with a growing number of poor individuals and families living in very poor neighborhoods. Elizabeth Kneebone, Carey Nadeau, and Alan Berube examine this trend, finding pronounced increases in the Midwest, South, and suburban areas.

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