Presentation to the Brookings Event ""Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s""
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May 19, 2003
Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s
This presentation by Paul Jargowsky summarizes findings from his new report, revealing that the number of people living in neighborhoods where at least 40 percent of the residents are poor dropped significantly between 1990 and 2000 after decades of increase.
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