Stigmabase | North America

In the American West, Bureaucratic Poverty Designations Are Shortchanging the Rural Poor - The government uses census data to define counties as officially “Persistently Poor ” if 20 percent or more of their populations were living in poverty during the last 30 years, as measured by the 1980, 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the Census Bureau's 2007-2011 American Community Survey.