“Place” refers to where people live, learn, and/or work, and/or the characteristics thereof. It is often used interchangeably with “geography” and “location” in the poverty studies arena. Common measures of place include urbanicity (urban, exurban, suburban, rural), neighborhood, census tract, and region.
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
- Fast Focus
- January 2020
How Well-Being Measures Can Help Communities Fight Poverty and Despair
- Anita Chandra and Carol Graham
- Webinar
- December 04 2019
Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities
- John M. Eason
- Focus & Focus+
- November 2019
Brian Thiede on the Rural Economy and Barriers to Work in Rural America
- Brian Thiede
- Podcast
- September 2019
Ensuring Equity in Evolving High School Career and Technical Education Policies
- Fast Focus
- August 2019
The brain science of poverty and its policy implications
- Fast Focus
- June 2019
Reducing high infant mortality rates in the United States
- Fast Focus
- May 2019
Rental Housing Affordability in Dane County
- Will Maher
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- May 2019
Walter Stern on Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating The Segregated City
- Walter Stern
- Podcast
- April 2019
A history of residential segregation in the United States
- Focus & Focus+
- March 2019