The geography of American poverty is there a need for place-based policies? /
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| Language: | English |
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Kalamazoo, Mich. :
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,
2006.
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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.