Overcoming Persistent Poverty : and Sinking into It. Income Trends in Persistent-Poverty and Other High-Poverty Rural Counties, 1989-94 / Mark Nord.

In 1989, 31.6 percent of the rural poor lived in persistent-poverty counties (those with poverty rates exceeding 20 percent for every decennial census year since 1960), and an additional 12.6 percent lived in "new" high-poverty counties. While this represents less than half the rural poor, high and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nord, Mark
Corporate Author: Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Dept. of Rural Sociology
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1997.
Subjects:
Differences.
Income.
Low Income Counties.
Minority Groups.
Nonmetropolitan Areas.
Poverty.
Poverty Areas.
Regional Characteristics.
Rural Areas.
Rural Population.
Economic Trends
Reports, Research.
Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Genre:
Reports, Research.
Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Physical Description:38 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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