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Desperately Seeking a Michael Bloomberg for the Suburbs
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is using $30 million of his own money—and a matching gift from George Soros—to help fund a new program aimed at addressing the vast socio-economic disparities...
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Transit Access and Zero-Vehicle Households
Millions of zero-vehicle households live in areas well served by transit. Yet hundreds of thousands of zero-vehicle households live out of transit’s reach, particularly in the South and in the suburbs....
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Parsing U.S. Poverty at the Metropolitan Level
Last week’s data from the Census Bureau on poverty and income provided some hints as to the impact of the Great Recession in U.S. regions and metropolitan areas. The picture becomes clearer today with...
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The Suburbanization of Housing Choice Voucher Recipients
Just as the suburbanization of poverty has gathered momentum, Americans who use housing choice vouchers (HCV) to help pay for their housing have increasingly moved into suburban areas as well. Where...
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The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
As the first decade of the 2000s drew to a close, the two downturns that bookended the period, combined with slow job growth between, clearly took their toll on the nation’s less fortunate residents....
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Where the Jobs Are: Employer Access to Labor by Transit
canvas:focus { outline: 0; } To view this content, please download the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer; or download the Java browser plugin. The suburbanization of jobs...
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U.S. Poverty Continues its Post-Recession Grip
Yesterday, the Census Bureau released the latest round of Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage data, giving us a look at 2011. The mixed picture that emerged in yesterday’s release reveals...
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The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Poverty
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Atlantic Cities website on September 20, 2012.The Great Recession may have officially ended in June 2009, but the weak and sluggish recovery has...
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Connecting to Opportunity: Access to Jobs via Transit in the Washington, D.C....
Metropolitan transportation networks are critical for a region's economic competitiveness. Public transit is a key component of the economic and social fabric of metropolitan areas. While commuting to...
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A New Look at How the Tax Code Works for Working Families
As the clock ticks down to January 1, and lawmakers try to hash out a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff and address the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, new data on taxpayers in the United...
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New State Data Show EITC’s Widespread Anti-Poverty Impact
Packed into the new year’s fiscal cliff deal was some good news for working families. Most notable was a provision that extends the 2009 Recovery Act expansions to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)...
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Job Sprawl Stalls: The Great Recession and Metropolitan Employment Location
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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America - Release Event
Event Information:May 20, 2013, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America - Release Event
Event InformationMay 20, 20139:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDTFalk AuditoriumBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20036Register for the EventClick here to visit the Confronting...
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Suburban Poverty Profiles: Montgomery County, Maryland
Editor's Note: Suburban Poverty in America, a new book by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, explores the growth of suburban poverty and offers unique policy solutions for revitalizing struggling...
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