Place and Poverty
Healthy Communities Matter: The Importance of Place to the Health of Boys of Color
Contributions from: Drexel School of Public Health, Drexel Department of Emergency Medicine, Houston Institute, PolicyLink, RAND Corporation, June 2010
Understanding Very High Rates of Young Child Poverty in the South (pdf)
Marybeth J. Mattingly and Catherine Turcotte-Seabury, The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, June 2010
The State of the South 2010, Ch. 1 Beyond The 'Gilded Age' (pdf)
MDC, June 2010
The State of Metropolitan America
The Brookings Institution, May 2010
The Next War on Poverty
Peter Edelman, Democracy Journal, Winter 2010
Regional Young Child Poverty in 2008: Rural Midwest Sees Increased Poverty, While Urban Northeast Rates
Mary Beth Mattingly, The Carsey Institute, September 2009
Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America
Center for Housing Policy, May 2009
The Geography of Opportunity: Building Communities of Opportunity in Massachusetts
Jason Reece and Samir Gambhir, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, January 2009
State of the States: 2008, Profile of Food & Nutrition Programs Across the Nation (pdf)
Rachel Cooper, Jim Weill, and Jennifer Adach,Food Research and Action Center, November 8, 2008
Concentrated Rural Poverty and the Geography of Exclusion (pdf)
Daniel T. Lichter and Domenico Parisi, Rural Sociological Society and the Carsey Institute, November 2008
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case Studies from Communities Across the U.S.
Community Affairs Offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, October 2008
Poverty and Economic Security: Views from City Hall (PDF)Phyllis Furdell, Michael Perry and Tres Undem, National League of Cities, October 2008
The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after KatrinaThe Brookings Institution, August, 2008
Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas (pdf)Lawrence C. Hamilton, Leslie R. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan and Chris R. Colocousis., The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire . August, 2008
Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000sElizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, Brookings Institution, August 2008
New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina SurveyKaiser Family Foundation, August 2008
“Combating Poverty: Emerging Strategies from the Nation’s Cities”National League of Cities, 2007
Place Matters: Employers, Low-Income Workers, and Regional Economic DevelopmentNancy M. Pindus, Brett Theodos, G. Thomas Kingsley, Urban Institute, September 2007
Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across AmericaAlan Berube, Bruce Katz, October 2005
A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect?Bruce Weber, Leif Jensen, Kathleen Miller, Jane Mosley, and Monica Fisher Institute for Research on Poverty, October 2005
Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan AmericaJason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger, George Galster, Brookings Institution, June 2006
Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005Alan Berube, Elizabeth Kneebone, Brookings Institution, December 2006
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