The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty

摘要: The late 2000s Great Recession brought rising neighborhood poverty in the midst of affluence, and reemergence a racial ethnic “underclass” living inner-city neighborhoods. Our approach redirects attention to level geography–cities, suburbs, small rural towns–where local political economic decisions effectively exclude poor minority populations. It uses newly released data from 2005–2009 American Community Survey provide evidence changing macro patterns spatially concentrated poverty. We show that roughly one four U.S. places had rates exceeding 20 percent 2005 through 2009, up 31 since 2000. Roughly 30 America's reside places, is especially high among African Americans. Overall increases place-based nonetheless were muted over decade by declines Hispanics (a pattern reflects spatial diffusion new destinations). also sorted unevenly place-to-place within labor markets (i.e., counties); poor-nonpoor segregation between increased 12.6 18.4 1990 period. Segregation was disadvantaged blacks Hispanics. empirical results make case for more scholarly on emerging at place level.