Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s

By P. Jargowsky. 2003

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Racial and Ethnic Trends in the Suburbanization of Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2010 (2014, background): “For example, Los Angeles and the California Central Valley—major destinations for Latino immigrants—saw increases in the number of high-poverty census tracts located in inner ring suburbs, likely owing to growth in large Latino immigrant barrios of these metropolitan areas (Cooke & Marchant, 2006; J”
The impact of European Cohesion Policy in urban and rural regions (2017, background): “…should therefore devote more attention to this dimension, taking into consideration the possibility of coupling policies aimed at tackling structural advantages with US-inspired initiatives characterized by a stronger focus on the sub-regional and urban dimension (Jargowsky, 1997, 2003).”
Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment (2011, result): “Minorities are also more likely than whites to live in distressed areas.(37) Our results, together with previous studies documenting the large social costs of obesity(38) and diabetes,(39) raise the possibility that clinical or public-health interventions ameliorating community-environment effects o”
Income Inequality and Income Segregation1 (2011, background): “By many measures, income segregation, and particularly the segregation of poverty, declined in the 1990s (Jargowsky, 2003; Massey & Fischer, 2003; Yang & Jargowsky, 2006).”
Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review (2010, background): “Jargowsky, P. A., & Yang, R. (2006). The underclass revisited: A social problem in decline. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28, 55 – 70. Johnson, R., & Corcoran, M. (2003). The road to economic self-sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform. Journal of Policy Analysis and M”
Subjective Constructions of Neighborhood Boundaries: Lessons from a Qualitative Study of Four Neighborhoods (2009, background): “…neighborhood identity can be tied to residents’ sense of intentionality about their place of residence, especially given changing residential patterns, such as the increasing concentration of suburban poverty and the deconcentration of some poverty areas in central cities (Jargowsky, 2003).”
Family (Dis)Advantage and the Educational Prospects of Better off African American Youth: How Race Still Matters (2007, unknown): “Just under 19% of African Americans in 2000 resided in neighborhoods with 40% and above poverty rates (down from 30% in 1990) versus 6% of whites (Jargowsky, 2003).”
What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?1 (2008, background): “Empirical evidence on the existence and nature of neighborhood effects is important, given that fully 7.9 million people lived in high-poverty census tracts in 2000 (Jargowsky 2003).”
The Changing Spatial Concentration of America's Rural Poor Population* (2007, background): “Most metro-level studies of poverty concentration have focused on within-county rather than between-county variation in poverty rates; the emphasis has been on differences in poverty across neighborhoods ( Jargowsky 2003; Massey and Denton 1993).”
Converging Evidence for Neighborhood Effects on Children's Test Scores: An Experimental, Quasi-experimental, and Observational Comparison* (2010, unknown): “Despite a decline during the 1990s in the number of people living in some of the most distressed Census tracts (poverty≥40%), a total of 8 million people still lived in such areas in 2000, nearly twice the number as in 1970 (Jargowsky, 2003).”