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Will the New Wave of Place-Based Policy Leave Persistently Poor Areas Behind?
In the News, Testimony & Commentary

July 12, 2023
New EIG Report Introduces Empirical Framework and Policy Recommendations to Strengthen Federal Intervention in Persistent Poverty Communities
Policy, Press Releases

June 27, 2023
Advancing Economic Development in Persistent-Poverty Communities
Reports

June 27, 2023
EIG Awarded Federal Grant to Study Persistently Poor Communities and Inform Future Policy
Press Releases

July 19, 2021
More Columbus and Ohio city neighborhoods are high poverty, not gentrified
In the News

July 17, 2020
The number of concentrated-poverty neighborhoods in the Twin Cities has doubled since 1980
In the News

July 13, 2020
The Geography of High-Poverty Neighborhoods – The View from Ohio
Analysis

July 8, 2020
‘It was never just about Floyd’: Protests reflect anger over inequality, neglect
In the News

June 8, 2020
Protests underscore worsening racial wealth gaps: “Justifiable anger”
In the News

June 2, 2020
A wave of small business closures could decimate commercial corridors in high-poverty neighborhoods
Analysis

May 27, 2020