Journal Article

Understanding concentrated poverty


Abstract: The Federal Reserve and the Brookings Institution have been collaborating on national concentrated poverty research. The author studied three Springfield, Massachusetts, neighborhoods with a combined poverty rate of 43 percent.

Keywords: Poverty - Massachusetts;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Part of Series: Communities and Banking

Publication Date: 2007

Issue: Fall

Pages: 24-25