Abstract
In this brief, authors Andrew Schaefer, Marybeth Mattingly, and Kenneth Johnson look at both the incidence of high child poverty and at the places where such high child poverty has persisted for decades. Their analysis documents that high child poverty is growing nationwide and that rural America includes a disproportionate share of children living in counties with persistently high child poverty. Counties with persistent high child poverty are clustered in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, much of the Southeast, parts of the Southwest, and in scattered areas of the Great Plains. More than three-quarters of counties with persistent high child poverty have a substantial minority child population.
Publication Date
Winter 2-23-2016
Series
National Issue Brief No. 97
Publisher
Durham, N.H. : Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Schaefer, Andrew P.; Mattingly, Marybeth J.; and Johnson, Kenneth M., "Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America" (2016). The Carsey School of Public Policy at the Scholars' Repository. 266.
https://scholars.unh.edu/carsey/266
Rights
Copyright 2016. Carsey School of Public Policy. These materials may be used for the purposes of research, teaching, and private study. For all other uses, contact the copyright holder.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2020.256