Poverty – geographically, a rural phenomenon

“At the geographic level, poverty in the United States is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon,” says an introductory article in Choices, the journal of agricultural economics. “Compared to rural America, urban America has been experiencing lower poverty rates. This gap has existed since the 1960s, when the poverty rates were first officially calculated, and it has been… » Read More

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