The cost of living and the geographic distribution of poverty [electronic resource] / Dean Jolliffe.
The prevalence of poverty has been greater in nonmetro areas than in metro areas in every year since the 1960s when poverty rates were first officially recorded. Accordingly, Federal funds for social assistance programs and community development have favored nonmetro areas. This study suggests that...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C. ] :
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,
[2006]
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| Series: | Economic research report (United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service) ;
no. 26. |
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| Summary: | The prevalence of poverty has been greater in nonmetro areas than in metro areas in every year since the 1960s when poverty rates were first officially recorded. Accordingly, Federal funds for social assistance programs and community development have favored nonmetro areas. This study suggests that adjusting poverty measures to account for cost-of-living differences between metro and nonmetro areas reverses that ranking. Once adjusted for cost-of-living differences using the Fair Market Rents index, metro poverty is greater than nonmetro poverty in terms of prevalence, depth, and severity over the entire 1991-2002 study period. |
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| Item Description: | Title from Web page (viewed on Oct. 25, 2006) "September 2006." |
| Physical Description: | iv, 22 pages : digital, PDF file. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web from ERS web site. Address as of 10/25/06: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err26/err26.pdf; current access available via PURL. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-18) |