Title The geography of American poverty : is there a need for place-based policies? / Mark D. Partridge, Dan S. Rickman

Published Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Spatial concentration of American poverty: should we care, and what are the options? -- Why society should care about poverty -- National poverty and economic growth -- Person- vs. place-based policy -- Overview of this book -- Recent spatial poverty trends in America -- Patterns and trends in state poverty -- Patterns and trends in county poverty rates -- Demographic patterns and trends in county poverty -- County patterns in employment growth -- Conclusions -- Regional economic performance and poverty : what's the theoretical connection? -- Interregional equilibrium and disequilibrium perspectives on poverty -- Regionally asymmetric labor demand shocks and poverty : the role of migration and commuting -- Labor demand and metropolitan poverty : the spatial mismatch hypothesis -- Rural labor demand and poverty -- Poverty and regional labor supply shifts -- Summary and conclusions -- An empirical analysis of state poverty trends : welfare reform vs. economic growth : empirical evidence at the national level -- State-level empirical studies of labor demand and poverty -- Welfare reform and poverty -- Empirical model -- Regression results -- Simulation of individual effects -- Conclusion -- State economic performance, welfare reform, and poverty : case studies from four states -- Regression sample period analysis -- Case study epilogue : post-2000 trends -- Conclusions -- County employment growth and poverty -- Why examine counties or metropolitan areas? -- Conceptual model of county poverty -- Empirical model of county poverty rates -- Empirical assessment of local poverty : local attributes -- Employment growth and poverty -- Neighboring county spillovers -- Poverty responses across key demographic groups -- Summary of overall county findings -- Conclusion -- Poverty in metropolitan America -- Trends in 1989 and 1999 metropolitan area poverty rates -- Poverty rates by metropolitan size -- Regression analysis of MSA poverty rates -- Suburban/central county poverty rate disparities -- Case studies of metropolitan poverty trends -- A policy framework to alleviate metropolitan poverty -- Conclusion -- Poverty in rural America -- What is different about rural or nonmetropolitan counties? -- Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties -- Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates -- Rural regression findings -- Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas -- Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska -- Policy implications for fighting rural poverty -- Summary -- How to win the local poverty war -- Synopsis -- Policy recommendations Summary Partridge and Rickman explore the wide geographic disparities in poverty across the United States. Their focus on the spatial dimensions of U.S. poverty reveals distinct differences across states, metropolitan areas, and counties and leads them to consider why antipoverty policies have succeeded in some places and failed in others Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-340) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Poverty -- United States Poverty -- United States -- Prevention Urban poor -- United States Rural poor -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics. Poverty Poverty -- Prevention Rural poor Social conditions Urban poor Armut Prävention SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511 Subject United States USA Form Electronic book Author Rickman, Dan S. ISBN 9781429454872 1429454873 9780880994484 0880994487 0880992867 9780880992862 0880992875 9780880992879

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