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Task Force on Work, Poverty and Opportunity

Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz Former Centennial Scholar

June 2, 2006

Before the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Bruce Katz argues that in order for America to make progress toward alleviating poverty and growing a strong and resilient urban middle class, a primary concern must be places of concentrated poverty, neighborhoods where 40 percent or more of the residents are poor.