Place and Poverty


The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina

            The Brookings Institution, August, 2008


Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas (pdf)
Lawrence C. Hamilton, Leslie R. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan and Chris R. Colocousis.The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire . August, 2008

Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s
Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, Brookings Institution, August 2008

New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey
Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2008

“Combating Poverty: Emerging Strategies from the Nation’s Cities”
National League of Cities, 2007

Place Matters: Employers, Low-Income Workers, and Regional Economic Development
Nancy M. Pindus, Brett Theodos, G. Thomas Kingsley, Urban Institute, September 2007

Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America

Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, October 2005

A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect?
Bruce Weber, Leif Jensen, Kathleen Miller, Jane Mosley, and Monica Fisher Institute for Research on Poverty, October 2005

Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America
Jason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger, George Galster,  Brookings Institution, June 2006

Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005
Alan Berube, Elizabeth Kneebone,  Brookings Institution, December 2006

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