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The Community Affairs Office of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution released on October 24 an in-depth study of concentrated poverty in 16 high-poverty communities, where poverty rates exceed 40%. The communities range from Cleveland, OH, to…
Data released by the Census Bureau on August 26 suggest that 37.3 million Americans, or 12.5%, had incomes below the poverty level in 2007. The overall poverty rate was unchanged from 2006 but was significantly higher for children (18.0%) and the Hispanic population (21.5%) compared to the same…
Roughly 72%, or $540 billion, of all federal program funding aimed at developing human capital, raising work effort, and/or encouraging saving, benefits mainly middle and upper income households. This is according to a study of the federal government’s “mobility budget” prepared by the Economic…