RCSSCI 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Living Wage, Employment-To-Population Ratio
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The geography of poverty in the united states - levernier. Tremendous geographic trends when analyzing poverty data. South has higher rates of poverty than the northeast. Rural areas and urban areas are usually the most impoverished. States and counties with high poverty rates are likely to have adjacent jurisdictions with high poverty rates. Persistent poverty : 20% poverty rate for 3-5 consecutive census periods. Reservations of the southwest and northern plains. Wide variance in poverty rates by state (low of 8. 6, high of 21. 8%) The south has a number of the bottom ranking states. 40% of counties in the south have poverty rates over 20% The second highest percentage of poor counties is the west with 15% Non-metropolitan areas have about a 4% higher poverty rate than metro areas (13% versus 17%) Some odd definitions for what a metro area is. Example: carson city with 55k people is a metro area. Locational characteristics only explain a part of the disparity.
