TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial variations in us poverty
T2 - Beyond metropolitan and non-metropolitan
AU - Wang, Man
AU - Kleit, Rachel Garshick
AU - Cover, Jane
AU - Fowler, Christopher S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Northwest Area Foundation for supporting this research. The views expressed are exclusively those of the authors. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Andrew M. Isserman.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used 'metropolitan/non-metropolitan' distinction obscures important socioeconomic differences among metropolitan areas, making our understanding of the geography of poverty imprecise. Given the number and concentration of poor people living in mixed-rural and rural counties in metropolitan regions, researchers and policy-makers need to pay more nuanced attention to the opportunities and constraints such individuals face. A cross-classification of the Office of Management and Budget's metro system with a nuanced RUDC scheme is the most effective for revealing the geographical complexities of poverty within metropolitan areas.
AB - Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used 'metropolitan/non-metropolitan' distinction obscures important socioeconomic differences among metropolitan areas, making our understanding of the geography of poverty imprecise. Given the number and concentration of poor people living in mixed-rural and rural counties in metropolitan regions, researchers and policy-makers need to pay more nuanced attention to the opportunities and constraints such individuals face. A cross-classification of the Office of Management and Budget's metro system with a nuanced RUDC scheme is the most effective for revealing the geographical complexities of poverty within metropolitan areas.
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U2 - 10.1177/0042098011404932
DO - 10.1177/0042098011404932
M3 - Article
C2 - 22512042
AN - SCOPUS:84863081442
SN - 0042-0980
VL - 49
SP - 563
EP - 585
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
IS - 3
ER -