GOVT 2225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Concentrated Poverty, Working Poor, Rura
12 Jun 2016
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Trends: decreases over time, but still quite high. Causes: suburbanization (wilson, discrimination (massey & denton, personal preferences (charles) Consequences: isolation concentrated poverty/inequality compromised mobility options, barriers to spatial mobility=barriers to social mobility. Potential solutions: reduced discrimination, increased exposure, integration. Measures the amount of segregation between two groups in a city: compares each group"s total city population with its population in each neighborhood, ranges from 0 to 100. Higher numbers indicate more residential segregation between those two groups. Rule of thumb: indices <30 are low, 30-60 are moderate, 60+ are high. Higher numbers indicate more exposure to other group. Still two americas: over the past 30 years, the presence of blacks in typical white neighborhoods has barely changed. Assumption that money goes farther in rural america. However more rural residents: face food insecurity, have inadequate housing (no plumbing, running water, electricity, lack access to reliable public transportation, receive fewer social subsidies, lack basic support services and medical care.
