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Download full textJensen, Leif – 1988
Some observers believe that welfare programs have an urban bias; however, the rate of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas. This study establishes metro and nonmetro differences in the use of welfare and the degree to which it reduces poverty. Data from the U. S. Census Bureau's March 1987 Current Population Survey are analyzed using…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Metropolitan Areas, Poverty, Poverty Areas
Bagby, Jane W.; And Others – 1988
Large percentages of preschool children in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia live in poverty and receive no benefits from society's "safety nets." County estimates for unemployment and per capita income (1985-1987) indicate that economic conditions are most severe in central West Virginia, eastern Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Infants
Kids Count Minnesota, Minneapolis. – 1996
Minnesota KIDS COUNT focuses on key risk indicators for children and describes the condition of children in each of Minnesota's 87 counties. According to this second annual report, another generation of children is at risk of growing up with decreasing resources, evidenced by increasing arrest rates for violent crimes and substantiated reports of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Births to Single Women, Census Figures
