The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?

Mark Partridge and Dan Rickman

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Abstract: Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed to help defeat poverty in the most distressed American central cities and remote high-poverty rural communities.

Keywords: poverty; place-based policies; econoomic geography; poverty reduction; anti-poverty policy; rural poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: cloth 9780880992879 paper 9780880992862
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