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Poor -- United States

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Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families

This 115-page report, released by Economic Policy Institute (EPI) at the end of July 2001, "is the most comprehensive study of family hardships ever published." The report examines the plight of the working poor by determining basic family budgets for communities across the nation -- the amount of money a family needs for food, housing, utilities, child care, transportation, and health care -- and...

https://www.epi.org/event/hardships-in-america-the-real-stor...
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

Established in 1966 by the US Office of Economic Opportunity, the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison, investigates the "causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality" in the United States. Often a source of in-depth information on welfare reform, IRP research is available in full text via the quarterly publication Focus (Fall 1994 to present), IRP...

https://www.irp.wisc.edu/
Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s

The issue of concentrated poverty is one that continues to engage the attention of social workers, politicians, and scholars alike. In this intriguing 24-page report from the Brooking Institution's Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Paul A. Jargowsky presents findings that suggest that concentrated poverty declined significantly during the 1990s. Some of his findings include statistics...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/stunning-progress-hidden-...
The 'Culture of Poverty' moves to the suburbs, reviving old problems and generating new complications

How Important Is Economic Diversity in Schools? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130647610 Poorest school districts get least-qualified teachers; affluent districts get the best, survey finds http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/18/2556603/poorest-school-districts-get-least.html A Culture of...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2010/1022