Poor individuals and families are not evenly distributed across communities or throughout the country. Alan Berube of Brookings discusses the impacts of this concentrated poverty. Extremely poor neighborhoods are often home to higher crime rates, underperforming public schools, poor housing and health conditions, as well as limited job opportunities. The bad news is that concentrated poverty has increase 41% in some area over the last decade.
You can learn more about Alan Berube's report on concentrated poverty here: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/08_concentrated_poverty_kneebone.aspx
Exactly, this is all true!
My mum is single and she has to somehow work full-time, look after two children and deal with the credit crunch around bills
we arent poor its just hard!
samyoe 3 years ago