Persistent Poverty

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Neighborhood Poverty Project

Track changes in the number and composition of metropolitan neighborhoods from 1980 to 2018

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The Persistence of Neighborhood Poverty

Press Release

An Economic ‘Return To Normal’ Won’t Help The Country’s Poorest Neighborhoods

Persistent Poverty Featured Analysis

  • Categories: Analysis|Published On: July 8, 2020|

    The Geography of High-Poverty Neighborhoods – The View from Ohio

  • Categories: Analysis|Published On: May 27, 2020|

    A wave of small business closures could decimate commercial corridors in high-poverty neighborhoods

  • Categories: Analysis|Published On: May 19, 2020|

    EIG Webinar | The Spread and Persistence of Neighborhood Poverty: Lessons for the COVID-19 Response

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Persistent Poverty News

  • Polish Hill, Pittsburgh
    Categories: Press Releases

    EIG Awarded Federal Grant to Study Persistently Poor Communities and Inform Future Policy

    July 19, 2021

  • Toledo, Ohio image

    Columbus Dispatch

    Categories: In the News

    More Columbus and Ohio city neighborhoods are high poverty, not gentrified

    July 17, 2020

  • Apartment buildings behind fence. Minneapolis, Minnesota

    MinnPost

    Categories: In the News

    The number of concentrated-poverty neighborhoods in the Twin Cities has doubled since 1980

    July 13, 2020

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    Buffalo News

    Categories: In the News

    ‘It was never just about Floyd’: Protests reflect anger over inequality, neglect

    June 8, 2020

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