Center Director Paul Jargowsky’s research on segregation featured in new Century Foundation report

ARCHITECTURE OF SEGREGATION

BY PAUL JARGOWSKY ON AUGUST 9, 2015

A new report from The Century Foundation reveals the number of people who live in high poverty neighborhoods has almost doubled since 2000 from 7.2 million to 13.8 million—the highest number ever recorded.

online appendix showing the growth in high-poverty neighborhoods in a number of metropolitan areas

Media and social media coverage of the report:

Badger, Emily. 2015. “Black Poverty Differs from White Poverty.” The Washington Post, August 12.

Covert, Bryce. 2015. “How A Poor Neighborhood Becomes A Trap.” ThinkProgress. Accessed August 14.

Florida, Richard. 2015. “America’s Biggest Problem Is Concentrated Poverty, Not Inequality.” CityLab. August 10.

Semuels, Alana. 2015. “The Resurrection of America’s Slums.” The Atlantic, August 9.

https://grist.org/cities/how-suburban-sprawl-causes-segregation-and-isolates-the-poor/

https://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/08/14/3691749/concentrated-poverty/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/15/the-daily-beast-s-best-longreads-august-9-15.html

http://www.newamerica.org/the-weekly-wonk/a-second-chance-offers-powerful-possibilities/

https://www.ideastream.org/news/more-people-living-high-poverty-neighborhoods-researcher-says

http://archinect.com/news/article/134433610/architecture-of-segregation

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article31119728.html

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2015-08/slum-armut-diskriminierung-usa