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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division: Poverty | Last Revised: January 28, 2014
2013 Poverty Thresholds
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Supplemental Poverty Measure
The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2012, US Census Bureau, 2013 & The California Poverty Measure: A New Look at the Social Safety Net, PPIC 2013
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Why Urban Poverty Persists?
• Economic Factors
• Social Stratification
• Discrimination
• Incarceration
• Family structure
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Concentrated Poverty
• Magnifies disadvantage
• Neighborhood effects persist into
adulthood
• Children inherit disadvantage
Employment Rates
1973 2007
Young, white men 98% 91%
Young, black men 96% 73%
Source: Danziger and Ratner, 2010
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Percent of Families Headed by a Single Mother
FM-1. Families, by Presence of Own Children Under 18: 1950 to Present
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March and Annual Social and Economic Supplements, 2013 and earlier.
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