Poverty Alleviation Blog 
The Geography of Jobs(0)
TIP Strategies has produced a compelling visualization of the job gains and losses in metropolitan areas throughout the country over the past 5 years.
Click here to view the animation of the geography of jobs in metropolitan areas
The Slate Group has produced a similar visualization of job gains and losses in counties over the past 3 [...]
Poverty in America is Worse than First Believed
The National Academy of Science (NAS) reports that 47.4 million Americans lived in poverty last year, 7 million more than the government’s official figure calculated by the Census Bureau.
The discrepancy arises from using different formulas to calculate the number of people in poverty. The Census Bureau’s formula was created in 1955, and does not [...]
New Census Poverty Data Reveal Deep Disparities Throughout Washington
A recent report on Schmudget, a blog about Budget and Policy in Washington State, summarizes newly released 2008 poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the report, 730,000 Washingtonians lived in poverty in 2008, a number that remained unchanged from the previous year. There was significant variation in poverty rates across communities in Washington, [...]
New Report: U.S. Metros Propel America’s Economy and Might Drive Its Recovery
Researchers from the Brookings Institution recently released a new article arguing there is a mismatch between our nation’s policies and economic reality. According to the authors, policymakers have failed to realize that the American economy is not a national economy, or even a collection of 50 state economies, but rather, is composed of 363 distinct metropolitan [...]
