More Poor Kids in More Poor Places [electronic resource] : Children Increasingly Live where Poverty Persists. Issue Brief Number 38 / Marybeth J. Mattingly, Kenneth M. Johnson and Andrew Schaefer.

The authors of this brief examine child poverty rates using decennial census data from 1980, 1990, and 2000, as well as American Community Survey five-year estimates between 2005 and 2009, to identify those counties where child poverty has persisted. They find persistent child poverty in nearly twic...

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