#EndUrbanPoverty

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From War to Hope: Reinvigorating America’s Efforts to End Urban Poverty

50-year Poverty Trends

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15%

46.5 MM

Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division: Poverty | Last Revised: January 28, 2014

2013 Poverty Thresholds

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% in Poverty by Age

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21.8%

13.7%

9.1%

22%

Race and Ethnicity

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Race and Ethnicity

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Nativity

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Poverty 2000 to 2012

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Episodic Poverty

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Poverty by Region

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The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure, US Census Bureau, 2013

Supplemental Poverty Measure

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Supplemental Poverty Measure

The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2012, US Census Bureau, 2013 & The California Poverty Measure: A New Look at the Social Safety Net, PPIC 2013

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Why Urban Poverty Persists?

• Economic Factors

• Social Stratification

• Discrimination

• Incarceration

• Family structure

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Source: Census Bureau

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Employment After Recession

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50% live in

concentrated or

extreme poverty

Population in extreme poverty

1/3

Concentrated Poverty

• Magnifies disadvantage

• Neighborhood effects persist into

adulthood

• Children inherit disadvantage

Discrimination

• Education

• Employment

• Housing

• Sentencing

Discrimination

• Education

• Employment

• Housing

• Sentencing

Sentencing

Incarceration

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Employment Rates

1973 2007

Young, white men 98% 91%

Young, black men 96% 73%

Source: Danziger and Ratner, 2010

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2011 Poverty Rate for Children in

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Percent of Families Headed by a Single Mother

FM-1. Families, by Presence of Own Children Under 18: 1950 to Present

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March and Annual Social and Economic Supplements, 2013 and earlier.

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