The Rise of Concentrated Poverty

Americans increasingly live in high-poverty neighborhoods, as documented in my analysisreleased last December. That report was based on U.S. Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data through 2011. The latest ACS tract-level data has recently been released based on monthly surveys conducted from 2008 to 2012. This is the first ACS tract-level data to be collected completely after the peak of the housing boom.

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