Place

“Place” refers to where people live, learn, and/or work, and/or the characteristics thereof. It is often used interchangeably with “geography” and “location” in the poverty studies arena. Common measures of place include urbanicity (urban, exurban, suburban, rural), neighborhood, census tract, and region.

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Rental Housing Affordability in Dane County

  • Will Maher
  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • May 2019
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A history of residential segregation in the United States

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • March 2019
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Segregation and subprime lending within and across metropolitan areas

  • Jackelyn Hwang, Michael Hankinson, and Kreg Steven Brown
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • March 2019
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Moving into and out of rural poverty

  • José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • December 2018
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Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence

  • Iryna Kyzyma
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • December 2018
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Child poverty in rural America

  • David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • December 2018
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Fifty years after The People Left Behind: The unfinished challenge of reducing rural poverty

  • Bruce Weber
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • October 2018
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Are rural Americans still behind?

  • James P. Ziliak
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • October 2018