#EndUrbanPoverty @USCPriceCSI @BedrosianCenter From War to Hope: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

#EndUrbanPoverty @USCPriceCSI @BedrosianCenter

From War to Hope: Reinvigorating America’s 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 Housing Statistics Division: Poverty | Last Revised: January 28, 2014 4

% in Poverty by Age 21.8% 13.7% 9.1% 5

22%

Race and Ethnicity 7

Race and Ethnicity 8

Nativity 9

Poverty 2000 to 2012 10

Episodic Poverty 11

Poverty by Region 12

Supplemental Poverty Measure The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure, US Census Bureau, 2013 13

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 14

Why Urban Poverty Persists? • Economic Factors • Social Stratification • Discrimination • Incarceration • Family structure 15

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Source: Census Bureau 17

Employment After Recession 18

50% live in concentrated or extreme poverty Population in extreme poverty 1/3

Concentrated Poverty • Magnifies disadvantage • Neighborhood effects persist into adulthood • Children inherit disadvantage

Discrimination • Education • Employment • Housing • Sentencing

Discrimination • Education • Employment • Housing • Sentencing

Sentencing

Incarceration 28

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 30

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. 31