Place

“Place” refers to where people live, learn, and/or work, and/or the characteristics thereof. It is often used interchangeably with “geography” and “location” in the poverty studies arena. Common measures of place include urbanicity (urban, exurban, suburban, rural), neighborhood, census tract, and region.

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Reducing high infant mortality rates in the United States

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
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Rental Housing Affordability in Dane County

  • Will Maher
  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • 2019
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Walter Stern on Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating The Segregated City

  • Walter Stern
  • Podcasts
  • 2019
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A history of residential segregation in the United States

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2019
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Segregation and subprime lending within and across metropolitan areas

  • Jackelyn Hwang, Michael Hankinson, and Kreg Steven Brown
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2019
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Reducing pregnancy-Related maternal deaths in the United States

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2018
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Moving into and out of rural poverty

  • José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2018
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Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence

  • Iryna Kyzyma
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2018
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Child poverty in rural America

  • David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2018
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Fifty years after The People Left Behind: The unfinished challenge of reducing rural poverty

  • Bruce Weber
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2018