February 7, 2012
What Dollar Store Locations Reveal About America
Richard Florida. The Atlantic. Place matters. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/02/
what-dollar-store-locations-reveal-about-america/1115/
January 4, 2012
Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
Jason DeParle. New York Times.
Posted November 4, 2011
Poorest poor in U.S. hits new record: 1 in 15 people
- Click here for the report from the Brookings Institute. 2011. The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s.
- Click here to find concentrated poverty statistics for your metropolitan area
"After declining during the 1990s economic boom, the proportion of poor people in large metropolitan areas who lived in high-poverty neighborhoods jumped from 11.2 percent in 2000 to 15.1 percent last year, according to a Brookings Institution analysis...
"Extreme poverty today continues to be prevalent in the industrial Midwes..., due to a renewed decline in manufacturing. But the biggest growth in high-poverty areas is occurring in newer Sun Belt metro areas such as Las Vegas, Riverside, Calif., and Cape Coral, Fla., after the plummeting housing market wiped out home values and dried up construction jobs.
"As a whole, the number of poor in the suburbs who lived in high-poverty neighborhoods rose by 41 percent since 2000, more than double the growth of such city neighborhoods.
"... people living in high-poverty neighborhoods... have less access to good schools, hospitals and government services. As concentrated poverty spreads to new areas, including suburbs, the residents are now more likely to be white, native-born and high school or college graduates -- not the conventional image of high-school dropouts or single mothers in inner-city ghettos." Associated Press. Poorest poor in U.S. hits new record: 1 in 15 people. Times Picayune. November 3, 2011: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/11/
poorest_poor_in_us_hits_new_re.html
Posted October 26, 2011
Hunger among Older Americans Spikes Nearly 80 Percent Since 2001: AARP Foundation report finds 1 in 11 Americans 50-plus at risk of hunger
Posted August 8, 2011
Life expectancy in the U.S. varies widely by region, in some places is decreasing.
Check out the interactive map. Look at your home county. Look at the Mississippi Delta counties.
Brown, David. Life expectancy in the U.S. varies widely by region, in some places is decreasing. Washington Post June 15, 2011: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/life-expectancy-in-the-us-varies-widely-by-region-and-in-some-places-is-decreasing/2011/06/13/AGdHuZVH_story.html
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More States Decide to 'Buy Veteran':
Firms Run by Returning Troops Benefit
Audi, Tamara. More States Decide to 'Buy Veteran': Firms Run by Returning Troops Benefit. Wall Street Journal. January 13, 2012: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203721704577156851909194224.html
January 2012
Kick Coal, Save Jobs, Right Now
In Washington State, a blue-green alliance helps phase out dirty energy 
Scott Martelle; artwork by Eddie Coll, photo by Lori Eanes
December 15, 2011
Teachers union leads effort that aims to turn around West Virginia school system
Lyndsey Layton, with photos by Michael S. Williamson . The Washington Post.
Posted August 9, 2011
Census Bureau's American Community Survey: Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2011: http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
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Photos: left, Mobile St., Hattiesburg, MS, post-Katrina; right, member of the Forrest County Environmental Support team, MS, by Natalie Renner