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Title: Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisis of the 2000s
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: The number of people living in high-poverty neighborhoods stabilized in the 1990s, prompting a series of studies about the trend and what it meant for families and children. Analysis of the 2000 Census raised hopes that the problem of concentrated poverty had receded. Recent Census results, coupled with analysis of long-term trends in neighborhood poverty, allow us to revisit the rise and fall of concentrated poverty after a decade of profound economic dislocations. At the request of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Pendall, Davies, Freiman and Pitingolo tracked the persistence of concentrated poverty in U.S. metropolitan areas over a period of nearly 40 years, and looked at a subset of urban neighborhoods characterized as the original ghetto, extensive areas whose cores were almost exclusively nonwhite and poor in 1970. 366 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) from 1970 to present were used to construct a dataset which included census tract-level population estimates from three primary sources: (1)GeoLytics/Urban Institute National Neighborhood Change Database (1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000), a unique tool presenting data from the Decennial Census of Population and Housing within year-2000 tract boundariesi; (2) American Community Survey (2005-2009 five-year average), and (3) National Historic Geographic Information System (1970 county-level estimates).
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Authors: Pitingolo, Rob; Davies, Elizabeth; Pendall, Rolf; Freiman, Lesley
Publisher: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Health, Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration, Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity
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