Understanding Falling Poverty in the Poorest Places: An Examination of the Experience of the Texas Borderland and Lower Mississippi Delta, 1990–2000

摘要: This study examines the structural changes that occurred between 1990 and 2000 in two poorest regions United States—the Texas Borderland Lower Mississippi Delta—and analyzes associations these substantial reduction of poverty witnessed areas over decade. Results show both experienced noteworthy during 1990s aggregate characteristics commonly associated with poverty. Further, results from multivariate models indicate counties high initial rates saw decline most, job growth net in-migration contributing to this decline. Conversely, smaller declines population younger than age 15 greater increases share families headed by females were lesser reductions The also reveal underlying mechanisms influencing differed important respects. Increases finance...