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Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s

Concentrated Poverty, Working Poor, Earned Income Tax Credit, U.S. Poverty, Inequality

Elizabeth Kneebone, Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

The Brookings Institution

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Q&A with Alan Berube

Low-Income Families and Communities

"Now, a larger number of low-income people live amid the circumstances that we need to be concerned about ... that high poverty brings, which includes: lack of investment; lack of local job opportunities; poorer performing schools, higher crime rates; and the poor physical and mental health that goes along with all of those problems."

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