In the American West, Bureaucratic Poverty Designations Are Shortchanging the Rural Poor
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.
- 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.