#EndUrbanPoverty @USCPriceCSI @BedrosianCenter From War to Hope: - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
#EndUrbanPoverty @USCPriceCSI @BedrosianCenter From War to Hope: - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
#EndUrbanPoverty @USCPriceCSI @BedrosianCenter From War to Hope: Reinvigorating Americas Efforts to End Urban Poverty 2 50-year Poverty Trends 15% 46.5 MM 3 2013 Poverty Thresholds Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Social, Economic, and
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From War to Hope:
Reinvigorating America’s Efforts to End Urban Poverty
50-year Poverty Trends
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15% 46.5 MM
Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division: Poverty | Last Revised: January 28, 2014
2013 Poverty Thresholds
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% in Poverty by Age
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21.8%
13.7%
9.1%
22%
Race and Ethnicity
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Race and Ethnicity
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Nativity
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Poverty 2000 to 2012
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Episodic Poverty
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Poverty by Region
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The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure, US Census Bureau, 2013
Supplemental Poverty Measure
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Supplemental Poverty Measure
The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2012, US Census Bureau, 2013 & The California Poverty Measure: A New Look at the Social Safety Net, PPIC 2013
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Why Urban Poverty Persists?
- Economic Factors
- Social Stratification
- Discrimination
- Incarceration
- Family structure
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Source: Census Bureau
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Employment After Recession
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50% live in
concentrated or extreme poverty Population in extreme poverty
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Concentrated Poverty
- Magnifies disadvantage
- Neighborhood effects persist into
adulthood
- Children inherit disadvantage
Discrimination
- Education
- Employment
- Housing
- Sentencing
Discrimination
- Education
- Employment
- Housing
- Sentencing
Sentencing
Incarceration
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Employment Rates
1973 2007 Young, white men 98% 91% Young, black men 96% 73%
Source: Danziger and Ratner, 2010 29
2011 Poverty Rate for Children in
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Percent of Families Headed by a Single Mother
FM-1. Families, by Presence of Own Children Under 18: 1950 to Present Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March and Annual Social and Economic Supplements, 2013 and earlier.
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