The Geography of American Poverty : Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? /

The Geography of American Poverty : Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Partridge, Mark D.
Other Authors: Rickman, Dan S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prävention
Armut
Urban poor.
Social conditions
Rural poor.
Poverty > Prevention.
Poverty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Pauvres en milieu rural > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > États-Unis.
Pauvrete > États-Unis.
Rural poor > United States.
Urban poor > United States.
Poverty > United States > Prevention.
Poverty > United States.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Spatial concentration of American poverty: should we care, and what are the options?
  • Why society should care about poverty
  • National poverty and economic growth
  • Person- vs. place-based policy
  • Overview of this book
  • Recent spatial poverty trends in America
  • Patterns and trends in state poverty
  • Patterns and trends in county poverty rates
  • Demographic patterns and trends in county poverty
  • County patterns in employment growth
  • Conclusions
  • Regional economic performance and poverty : what's the theoretical connection?
  • Interregional equilibrium and disequilibrium perspectives on poverty
  • Regionally asymmetric labor demand shocks and poverty : the role of migration and commuting
  • Labor demand and metropolitan poverty : the spatial mismatch hypothesis
  • Rural labor demand and poverty
  • Poverty and regional labor supply shifts
  • Summary and conclusions
  • An empirical analysis of state poverty trends : welfare reform vs. economic growth : empirical evidence at the national level
  • State-level empirical studies of labor demand and poverty
  • Welfare reform and poverty
  • Empirical model
  • Regression results
  • Simulation of individual effects
  • Conclusion
  • State economic performance, welfare reform, and poverty : case studies from four states
  • Regression sample period analysis
  • Case study epilogue : post-2000 trends
  • Conclusions
  • County employment growth and poverty
  • Why examine counties or metropolitan areas?
  • Conceptual model of county poverty
  • Empirical model of county poverty rates
  • Empirical assessment of local poverty : local attributes
  • Employment growth and poverty
  • Neighboring county spillovers
  • Poverty responses across key demographic groups
  • Summary of overall county findings
  • Conclusion
  • Poverty in metropolitan America
  • Trends in 1989 and 1999 metropolitan area poverty rates
  • Poverty rates by metropolitan size
  • Regression analysis of MSA poverty rates
  • Suburban/central county poverty rate disparities
  • Case studies of metropolitan poverty trends
  • A policy framework to alleviate metropolitan poverty
  • Conclusion
  • Poverty in rural America
  • What is different about rural or nonmetropolitan counties?
  • Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties
  • Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates
  • Rural regression findings
  • Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas
  • Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
  • Policy implications for fighting rural poverty
  • Summary
  • How to win the local poverty war
  • Synopsis
  • Policy recommendations.

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